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

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

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

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

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 ... history at the Victoria University of Manchester's laboratories. The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha ...

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

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 ...

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.

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father ... pioneers paved the way for the nuclear age and the biggest science experiment in world history. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a huge ...

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 ...