The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton ... which developed the first atomic bomb during World ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford ... in nuclear and atomic physics while working ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called ... These, and the earlier efforts of Rutherford, laid the groundwork for the creation of atomic weapons, which harnessed the process of nuclear fission ...

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 (right) and Hans Geiger led the ... suggested the president had confused the discovery with the later creation of the atomic bomb. Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump made ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford ... These, and the earlier efforts of Rutherford, laid the groundwork for the creation ...

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 ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest ... efforts of Rutherford, laid the groundwork for the creation of atomic weapons, which ...

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 ...

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated ... the discovery with the later creation of the atomic bomb. U.S. President Donald Trump made the claim ...

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 ...

“Rutherford had ‘split the atom,’ the news headlines proclaimed, and the science of nuclear physics — the manipulation of the atomic nucleus — was launched, ” Priestley said. In ...