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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

who in 1897 discovered 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 Zealand-born scientist ...

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

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 ...

One achievement – splitting the atom – was especially baffling ... In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha ...