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

Split Fiction is the newest game coming from Hazelight Studios, the minds behind the revolutionary co-op title It Takes Two and it's releasing in a few weeks! That's right, after making the go-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 accomplished. Donald Trump angered New Zealanders ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

Among other false and misleading claims in US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts by New Zealanders, ...

Credit: YouTube/Wikimedia Commons. When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation spread across the globe.

After being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump listed off the achievements of the country during the inaugural address including a false claim that US experts split the ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

to visit the Lord Rutherford Memorial in Brightwater "so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate". Atoms split naturally, but in 1919, Rutherford oversaw the first ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. Trump’s ...

Trump's inauguration address rattled off a list of crowning American feats such as ending slavery, launching into space, and the moment they “split the atom”. The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.