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

Let’s take a short break and look back into the history of “atom smashers” and the scientific progress they brought along. Proton accelerator used by Walton & Cockroft to split the atom.

as New Zealanders responded by proudly asserting their history behind the scientific breakthrough. While listing the United States’ accomplishments, Trump claimed that Americans “harnessed electricity ...

In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.

He was an educator, a scientist, an anthropologist and a linguist who UK called “one of the most versatile persons ever to be affiliated with the University.” Meet William Snyder Webb.

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 ...

Rutherford's achievement in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England marked a pivotal moment in the history of nuclear ... today Americans split the atom when that honour belongs ...

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who was born in Brightwater near Nelson, was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in ...

Dr James Sumner, a lecturer on the history of technology at the University ... conceding splitting the atom was a "loose term". Big scientific discoveries tend to attract myths which supposes ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...

The atom comment split opinions ... “Flippancy aside, the truth matters. And history matters,” she said.

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...