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

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

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The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

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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 ...

He was the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles." The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what ...

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 while ...

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 ...

“Okay, I’ve gotta call time. Trump just claimed America split the atom. That’s THE ONE THING WE DID,” Uffindell wrote on social media. Widely regarded as the “father of nuclear physics,” Rutherford ...