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

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

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

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear fission experiment from 1938. As we researched the complexities of performing the experiment, we were struck by a sobering thought ...

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

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

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

In 1919 Rutherford had discovered the proton, a positively charged particle within the atom's nucleus ... his mind while working on other things. Experiments in Europe caught his eye, especially ...

Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting the atom’ in popular accounts, but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between ...

The president’s inauguration address rattled off a list of other crowning American feats such as ending slavery and launching ...