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

The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually achieved; splitting apart a nucleus by bombarding ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech ... as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi scientific genius based at the then-Victoria University of Manchester ...

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 ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

During his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, a milestone attributed to New Zealand-born scientist Ernest Rutherford. More Anna Moneymaker ...

The atom comment split opinions, one might say ... famous and favourite son,” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford. Ben Uffindell, editor of satirical New Zealand site the ...