It was physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, who managed to reach that historic milestone in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England and the element rutherfordium was named ...

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could ... "None of them originated ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that ...

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

Ernest Rutherford (right ... "None of them originated in the United States." ...

Donald Trump claimed in his inauguration speech that the US was the first to split the atom - despite the fact that Kiwi Ernest Rutherford was the first to ...

Recounts in key states affirmed Biden's victory ... and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand". New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the ...

Spain is not the only foreign country left confused by Trump’s first day. During a speech the President vexed New Zealanders after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir ...

A staunch Kiwi Donald Trump supporter travelled to America and braved sub-zero temperatures to witness the president’s second inauguration.

Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme ... New Zealand physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford is credited with splitting ...