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.

Ernest Rutherford (right ... Victoria University of Manchester's laboratories. The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from ...

The honour in fact belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford ... of Manchester's laboratories. The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned ...

President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford ... Physics in 1922 Rutherford’s most famous experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles.

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 ...

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 ...

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, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...