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

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford ... the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

In 1911 Ernest Rutherford published his account of the ... At the time even he was unaware of the importance of his discovery ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

Trump's claim that American experts were responsible for this feat has been met with swift correction from New Zealanders, who proudly assert that their native son, Sir Ernest Rutherford, was the true ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

Rutherford’s discoveries heralded not only nuclear power and weapons ... Hans Geiger (co-inventor of the Geiger counter), Georg Halevy (radioactive tracers), Ernest Marsden (atomic nucleus) and James ...

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.

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