The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually achieved; splitting apart a nucleus by bombarding ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

The mayor of a New Zealand city has rubbished an eyebrow-raising claim made by President Donald Trump during his wild ...

A small-town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump after the freshly sworn-in United States ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted ...

Nelson Mayor Nick Smith said on social media he was "surprised" to hear Trump making claims about the atom in his ...

Donald Trump claimed in his inauguration speech that the US was the first to split the atom - despite the fact that Kiwi Ernest Rutherford was the first to ...

Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New Zealand, 1926. Rutherford’s research in the United Kingdom in 1917 made him the first to split the atom.

New Zealand is defending one of the most significant accomplishments by one of its people against claims from newly sworn-in United States President Donald Trump that an American was the first to ...