Just next door stands the imposing building where physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the ... it was also from the same species. During the experiment, an "interrogator" took turns questioning ...

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

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.

was later confirmed in an experiment by Rutherford's colleagues. "John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton developed a device, an accelerator, to generate more penetrating radiation," the Nobel Prize ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the ... history at the Victoria University of Manchester's laboratories. The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha ...

The mayor of a New Zealand city has rubbished an eyebrow-raising claim made by President Donald Trump during his wild inauguration speech.