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

Halford & Brough react to Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford's comments in the Globe & Mail, where he appeared to suggest that the team's current core could ...

(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 ...

Trump's claim that American experts were responsible for this feat has been met with swift correction from New Zealanders, who proudly assert that their native son, Sir Ernest Rutherford ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear ... and Irishman Ernest Walton performed the first controlled experiment to split an atomic nucleus into two in 1932. The pair was awarded ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford ... for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 Rutherford’s most famous experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil ...

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 (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 ...