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

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

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

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

The United States was built by immigrants, and this statement holds true even in its scientific and technological sectors.

One achievement – splitting the atom – was especially baffling, as that was achieved by a New Zealand physicist working ... and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford," Dr Nick Smith, the Mayor ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US president ...

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

Nick Smith, the mayor of Nelson, challenged Trump’s claim Americans split the atom, stating the feat was actually achieved by ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration in an inauguration speech that Americans "split the atom" prompted vexed social ...

Mayor Nick Smith said that he would invite the incoming US ambassador to visit the Rutherford memorial in Nelson 'so we can ...

The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland’s Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford. It is not attributed ...