Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

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 ... which developed the first atomic bomb during World ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford ... in nuclear and atomic physics while working ...

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated ... the discovery with the later creation of the atomic bomb. U.S. President Donald Trump made the claim ...

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 ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest ... model of an atom shows a nucleus orbited by a number of electrons In 1803, John Dalton's ...