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.
I thought that we had the knowledge of how to split one, but can't do it yet. He thinks we did ages ago, but it's only been used to create atomic bombs. Isn't it true that if we could split the atom, that would create... show more Hi, my boyfriend and I are arguing about whether or not we have split the atom. I thought that we had the knowledge of how to split one, but can't do it yet. He thinks we did ages ago, but it's only been used to create atomic bombs. Isn't it true that if we could split the atom, that would create...