Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." ...

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

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

In 1911 Ernest Rutherford published his account of the ... At the time even he was unaware of the importance of his discovery ...

Ernest Rutherford, born in Nelson ... the first to intentionally split the atom through a nuclear reaction. His discoveries not only defined the modern understanding of atomic structure but ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford ... the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

Rutherford’s discoveries heralded not only nuclear power and weapons ... Hans Geiger (co-inventor of the Geiger counter), Georg Halevy (radioactive tracers), Ernest Marsden (atomic nucleus) and James ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement widely attributed to Ernest ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the ... suggested the president had confused the discovery with the later creation of the atomic bomb. Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump made ...