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

writing that he was “a bit surprised” by Trump’s claim “when that honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son,” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford.

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.

With Reform riding high in the polls, many new Labour MPs are deeply anxious about the threat posed by Nigel Farage. To fight ...

TULELA: Anyway, JJ Thomson’s plum pudding model of the atom didn’t last very long because only about a decade later, along comes Ernest Rutherford who tested Thomson’s theory and proved that ...

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 term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually achieved; splitting apart a nucleus by bombarding ...

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. Donald Trump angered New Zealanders ...

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