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.

Kelly Rutherford ‘s little boy is not-so-little anymore. The mother-son duo made their first official public outing in nearly ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

While Rutherford is credited for the initial splitting of the atom, Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton later ... of New Zealand's most famous sons, and his face still adorns ...

writing that he was “a bit surprised” by Trump’s claim “when that honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son,” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford.

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 ...

Its creator was Arthur Schuster, son of an Anglo-German mercantile family ... The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who had studied in ...