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

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 ...

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

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

who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited with splitting the atom. Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist ...

President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford. Credit: YouTube/Wikimedia Commons. When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ...

"I was a bit surprised by new president Donald Trump in his inauguration speech about US greatness claiming today Americans split the atom when that honour belongs to Nelson's most famous and ...

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

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.