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.

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

In 1932, under Rutherford’s leadership at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, Britain’s Cockcroft and Walton, from Ireland, split the atomic nucleus using a “handmade array of transformers ...