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Life in the UK Test Practice Question · Ho & Duck: Add-on — Chapter 3 Extra Topics

What were scientists led by Ernest Rutherford, working at Manchester and then Cambridge University, the first to do?

Correct answer: 'Split the atom', later taking part in the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb

Scientists led by Ernest Rutherford, working at Manchester and then Cambridge University, were the first to 'split the atom' and took part in the Manhattan Project in the United States, which developed the atomic bomb used against Japan in 1945.

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