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

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

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by physicist Ernest Rutherford.

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms ... Sir Isaac Newton is credited with discovering and describing gravity in the 17th century. Ernest Walton split atomic nuclei to find ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many ... John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British ...