Aspiring Astrophysicist

ThankYouforHelp
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:06:38 +0000

Actually, the atom of any type was first split at the University of Manchester in 1917 by Ernest Rutherford.

The key Uranium experiments that let to nuclear energy and weapons happened in Rome and then Berlin, before the experiments were repeated and confirmed at Columbia.

Most of the Manhattan project experiments actually were at the University of Chicago, including the big one where a chain reaction was created and controlled (leading to the real possibility of a nuclear bomb or nuclear power).

UC Berkeley also played a huge part, especially in the creation of plutonium.

nerd out!

(not that any of this has anything to do with the OPs question…)