When President Donald Trump, in his second inaugural address last January, mistakenly credited Americans with splitting the atom, the reaction of shocked New Zealanders was immediate. In 1917, the ...

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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 known as the father of nuclear physics.

In 1932, British and Irish scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's leadership, successfully split the atom at at the University of Cambridge.

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together.