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 ...

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

The United States was built by immigrants. This statement also applies to its scientific and technological sectors. It ...

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.

Newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump claimed America split the atom in his inaugural address, despite it being the ...

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 ...

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 ...

He obtained his PhD in Germany after graduating from Harvard in 1925 and studying at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford. In 1929 he returned to the United States and positions at ...