SPLIT THE ATOM

                                  A New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford ( 1871 - 1937) a New Zealand scientist working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England, in the 1890s, became the first man to split the atom, thus establishing the  new science of nuclear physics. He gathered around him a group of brilliant nuclear physicist. Their work led to release of nuclear energy and eventually to the atomic bomb. Among his pupils were 14 future Nobel Prize winners.