Unfortunately, it has not been devoid of drama as the soap opera that is J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson has not been cancelled and got a bit worse after president Jim Rutherford‘s interview in ...

(AFP via Getty Images) The atom was fully split in a controlled manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ernest Scheyder is a senior correspondent covering the clean energy transition and critical minerals, as well as the author of "The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power our ...

It was physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, who managed to reach that historic milestone in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England and the element rutherfordium was named ...

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 while ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

The claim sparked backlash from officials and social media users in across the country, with many asserting that Rutherford's groundbreaking work is a source of national pride. Ernest Rutherford ...

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 ...

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 ...