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

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

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

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

In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump claimed an American first split the atom. A New Zealand mayor immediately disputed.

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 ...

Trump made a claim Monday that an American split the first atom, which was immediately disputed ... Smith extended an invitation to the person who will assume the role. “I will be inviting ...

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

Later, he and his team conducted experiments in Manchester between 1914 and 1919, which have been described as being the first to "split the atom". He blasted beams of radioactive particles into ...

The atom comment split opinions, one might say ... the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited with splitting the atom. Rutherford, the New ...