In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by ...

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his ...

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 ...

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

“I was a bit surprised by new president Donald Trump in his inauguration speech about US greatness claiming today Americans split the atom when that honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and ...

Trump's inauguration address rattled off a list of crowning American feats such as ending slavery, launching into space, and the moment they "split the atom". The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's ...

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 ...

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom. Trump made a claim Monday that an American split ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

to visit the Lord Rutherford Memorial in Brightwater "so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate". Atoms split naturally, but in 1919, Rutherford oversaw the first ...