Mighty atoms

BOFFINS have gone nuclear over which nation originally split the atom, as the Daily Star revealed yesterday.

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While Orange Manbaby Donald Trump claims it was the US, the rest of the world says he is talking out of his reactor.

The 1919 breakthrough is usually credited to Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand-born scientist at the University of Manchester. Here MEG JORSH bombards you with 15 facts about the Very Important Particles...

1. Atoms are the microscopic building blocks of the universe. The average human hair contains millions and measures around 500,000 atoms across.

2. The word atom comes from the Greek atom for uncuttable or undivided. It was coined by philosopher Democritus in the 5th Century BC - which shows what he knew.

3. Atoms are made up of even smaller bits. Each one contains a cluster of protons and neutrons called a nucleus, orbited by negatively-charged electrons. Protons and neutrons can be broken down into quarks.