In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and certainly wasn't the first to do.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear ... scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed ...

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Trump's claim that American experts were responsible for this feat has been met with swift correction from New Zealanders, who proudly assert that their native son, Sir Ernest Rutherford ...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was addressing a high ...

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