Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

These particles should have passed straight through, according to the plum pudding model. However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary ...

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by ...

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

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford ... of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, the ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester [University of Manchester] Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom ...

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 ...

Key scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, built on prior research but did not perform the initial splitting of the atom. Ernest Rutherford ...