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 ...

In fusion the aim is to use extremely high temperatures and pressures to force hydrogen atoms to fuse, creating helium. This process destroys a tiny fraction of their mass, converting it into ...

“Rutherford’s ground breaking research on radio communication, radioactivity, the structure of the atom and ultra sound technology were done at Cambridge and Manchester Universities in the UK and ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

"Rutherford's ground breaking research on radio communication, radioactivity, the structure of the atom and ultra sound technology were done at Cambridge and Manchester Universities in the UK and ...

"Rutherford's ground breaking research on radio communication, radioactivity, the structure of the atom and ultra sound technology were done at Cambridge and Manchester Universities in the UK and ...

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 ...

While earlier experiments explored the atom and its structure, Rutherford and his colleagues manipulated the atom itself. In 1917, at the University of Manchester, he undertook a series of ...

In a post on Facebook, Nick Smith, Mayor of Nelson, clarified Sir Ernest's "ground-breaking research on radio communication, radioactivity, the structure of the atom and ultrasound technology" was ...

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who was born in Brightwater near Nelson, was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in ...