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

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

(AFP via Getty Images) The atom was fully split in a controlled manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

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.

“Trump just claimed America split the atom. That’s THE ONE THING WE DID.” Nelson Mayor Nick Smith took exception to Donald Trump's erasure of a New Zealand hero. Sir Ernest Rutherford is ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

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 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 ...

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 while ...