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 ...

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

The machine whirred and clicked. If it worked it would, as far as we knew, be the first time ever on British television that an atom had been split. Suddenly, the computers beeped: the results ...

It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a nucleus into two or more smaller parts. Getty Images Fermi built the first nuclear reactor in ...