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

The 47th president of the US is now in office and President Trump’s second term looks certain to be consequential for the ...

as professor of chemistry and physics. While there he had among his students Sir Ernest Rutherford, who in the Times of Jan. 25, pays an appreciative tribute to the stimulating lectures given by ...

Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New Zealand, 1926. Rutherford’s research in the United Kingdom in 1917 made him the first to split the atom.

Widely regarded as the "father of nuclear physics," Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 for ... Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton later performed ...

In a significant move to support at risk academics, the Chemists' Community Fund (the benevolent fund of the Royal Society of Chemistry) has begun a three ... including Nobel Prize winner Ernest ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

Donald Trump vexed New Zealanders on the first day of his presidency after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir Ernest Rutherford from Nelson in New Zealand.

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

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

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