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

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

In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump claimed an American first split the atom. A New Zealand mayor immediately disputed.

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

Sir Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear ... of the atom and ultrasound technology were done at Cambridge and Manchester Universities in the UK and McGill University in Montreal ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known ... nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The achievement is also ...

Trump speech hailed the US feat, but New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford oversaw the trial in Manchester.

Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at the U.K.'s Manchester ... Rutherford is credited for the initial splitting of the atom, Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman ...

The atom was first split by Kiwi Sir Ernest Rutherford, originally from Nelson, in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England. But during Trump's inauguration speech, he used it as an ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration in an inauguration speech that Americans "split the atom" prompted vexed social ...