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

Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his ...

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.

The mayor of a New Zealand city has rubbished an eyebrow-raising claim made by President Donald Trump during his wild ...

Donald Trump has sparked outrage in New Zealand following a statement during his second-term inauguration speech in ...

The president repeated false claims related to the 2020 US election in addition to unfounded allegations against ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom ...

Read full article: Trump’s 1st day: Central Floridians discuss executive orders on immigration, gender Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded ...

The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland’s Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom ...