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

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

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 ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear ... and Irishman Ernest Walton performed the first controlled experiment to split an atomic nucleus into two in 1932. The pair was awarded ...

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.

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 ...

Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie, published recently in English, documents serious limitations of the study – including that student "guards" were actually coached to ...

‘To call this a crime of violence is quite the understatement’: Judge detains two men accused of tying up, killing 63-year-old man ...