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

He added that he would invite the incoming US ambassador to visit the Rutherford memorial in Nelson, population 50,000, "so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate." Ben ...

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smith expressed his surprise at Trump's claim, stating, "I was a bit surprised by new president Donald Trump in his inauguration speech about US greatness claiming today Americans split the atom ...

He is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 during experiments at UK's Manchester University. English scientist John Douglas ...

A year later, the pair split. "I am a walking literal breakup ... she's speaking out about why TikTokers were right about the breakup. She first hinted at the reasons behind dumping her ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished. Donald Trump angered New Zealanders ...

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial ... as the uranium atom was first split in 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in December 1938, in Germany.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...