Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could ... "None of them originated ...

Donald Trump has sparked outrage in New Zealand following a statement during his second-term inauguration speech in Washington, D.C.

It was physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, who managed to reach that historic milestone in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England and the element rutherfordium was named ...

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

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

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 ...

Recounts in key states affirmed Biden's victory ... and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand". New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the ...

Spain is not the only foreign country left confused by Trump’s first day. During a speech the President vexed New Zealanders after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir ...