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 splitting of an atom releases an incredible amount of heat and gamma radiation, or radiation made of high-energy photons. The two atoms that result from the fission later release beta radiation (superfast electrons) and gamma radiation of their own, too.