The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...
Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...
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 ... in nuclear and atomic physics while working ...
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 ...
Ben Uffindell (@BenUffindell) January 20, 2025 Rutherford's legacy extends far beyond his scientific contributions ... such as John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who successfully split lithium ...
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 ...
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 ...