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

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

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

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the ... suggested the president had confused the discovery with the later creation of the atomic bomb. Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump made ...

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement widely attributed to Ernest ...

Ernest Rutherford, born in Nelson ... the first to intentionally split the atom through a nuclear reaction. His discoveries not only defined the modern understanding of atomic structure but ...

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 ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

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

President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford ... Decades later, Rutherford’s protegees would discover that the nucleus is made up of particles like protons and neutrons.

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...