Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at the UK's Manchester University in 1917, Rutherford was "the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen ...

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom. Trump made a claim Monday that an American split the ...

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 ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The energy released in their experiment, while small, hinted at the tremendous power stored in the atom. While Cockcroft and Walton were the first to split an atom with artificial means ...