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

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that ...

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

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

Donald Trump claimed in his inauguration speech that the US was the first to split the atom - despite the fact that Kiwi Ernest Rutherford was the first to ...

Ernest Rutherford (right ... "None of them originated in the United States." ...