In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could be split during experiments ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi scientific genius based at the then-Victoria University of Manchester ...

In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump claimed an American first split the atom. A New Zealand mayor immediately disputed.

New Zealanders upset after Trump falsely claims US split the atom: ‘The one thing we did’ - Trump gets called out on social media for repeating erroneous claim during inauguration speech ...

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester in ...