Season(s) Ty Panitz (born April 8, 1999) is an American child actor. He debuted as Ethan Beardsley in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours (2005). His other roles include Woody Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms.
He is widely credited with first splitting the atom in 1917 in a nuclear reaction between nitrogen and alpha particles, in which he also discovered (and named) the proton. Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1919.
A negatively charged particle within an atom is called an electron. Electrons were discovered in 1897 by a British scientist named J.J.... A negatively charged particle within an atom is called an electron. Electrons were discovered in 1897 by a British scientist named J.J. Thomson. All of the electrons found in an atom balance out the protons of the atom.