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We’ve split the atom!” It meant an intellectual climate different in kind from anything else in England at the time. The tone of science was the tone of Rutherford: magniloquently boastful ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out how ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...

Trump made a claim Monday that an American split the first atom, which was immediately ... Nelson’s most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford,” Smith wrote on Facebook.

(AFP via Getty Images) The atom was fully split in a controlled manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was ...

Rutherford's achievement ... claiming today Americans split the atom when that honour belongs to Nelson's most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford." Trump's remarks have also drawn ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the sub-atomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

“Trump just claimed America split the atom. That’s THE ONE THING WE DID.” Nelson Mayor Nick Smith took exception to Donald Trump's erasure of a New Zealand hero. Sir Ernest Rutherford is ...