Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

There was also some dissent from Britain, with one otherwise Trump-admiring commentator asserting that the “achievement belongs to Britain” and pointing to the work of physicists John Cockroft and ...

Rutherford, a farmer’s son who worked in the UK and Canada, was a researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics ... researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision.

Trump's claim that American experts were responsible for this feat has been met with swift correction from New Zealanders, who proudly assert that their native son, Sir Ernest Rutherford ...

“That honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest ... of that. “Rutherford’s groundbreaking research on radio communication, radioactivity, the structure of the ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation spread across the globe. The statement, made to bolster the nation’s ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford ... in nuclear and atomic physics while working ...

It was physicist Sir Ernest ... Rutherford memorial in Brightwater so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate”. Rutherford is often referred to as the father of nuclear ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford". In a post on Facebook, Nick Smith, Mayor of Nelson, clarified Sir Ernest's "ground-breaking research on radio communication, radioactivity, the structure of the atom and ...

New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford ... although it describes Rutherford's earlier achievements in mapping the structure of the atom, postulating a central nucleus and identifying the proton.