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.
The focus of the splitting-the-atom story should be on the discovery of nuclear fission and its impact on world affairs. It is important not to overlook the science in this episode when considering the ethical and national-security considerations associated with fission and fusion.