In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

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

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester in ...

Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist, “took things further,” Priestley said. While earlier experiments explored the atom and its structure, Rutherford and his colleagues manipulated the ...

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

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

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

After being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump listed off the achievements of the country during the inaugural address including a false claim that US experts split the ...

President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford. Credit: YouTube/Wikimedia Commons. When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ...

In 1917, while at Victoria University of Manchester in England, Rutherford was the first to intentionally split the atom through a nuclear reaction. His discoveries not only defined the modern ...