Sometimes, a good guess is the key to scientific discovery ...

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

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

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

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 ...

A science-related comment made by President Trump during an inauguration address on Tuesday sparked online backlash, ...

“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 ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known ... nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The achievement is also ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at the university. The 47th US ...

Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at the U.K.'s Manchester ... Rutherford is credited for the initial splitting of the atom, Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman ...