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

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

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 ...

The dissenting parties, at the very least, seem to agree on one thing: Whoever first split the atom, it was not an American. Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria ...

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

He was the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles." The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what ...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was the first to split an atom in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England. (AFP via Getty Images) The atom was fully split in a controlled ...

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 ...

Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at UK's Manchester University in 1917, Rutherford was "the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen ...

Trump made a claim Monday that an American split the first atom, which was immediately disputed by New Zealanders. The president was attempting to rally national pride in his speech when he ...