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 ...
Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...
Mayor Nick Smith said that he would invite the incoming US ambassador to visit the Rutherford memorial in Nelson 'so we can ...
Sir Ernest Rutherford, was the true pioneer behind this discovery. Rutherford's achievement in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England marked a pivotal moment in the history of ...
In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump claimed an American first split the atom. A New Zealand mayor immediately disputed.
Ben Uffindell, editor of a satirical New Zealand news website called The Civilian, also took issue with Mr. Trump's claim.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was the first to split an atom in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester ... John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision.