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

Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, built on prior research but did not perform the initial splitting of the atom. Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New ...

Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel ... prize for a 1972 experiment, cobbled together with scavenged equipment, that helped settle a famous debate about quantum mechanics between ...

Who split the atom ... he had already earned a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioactivity. This was a man of such brilliance and repute that Albert Einstein would later call him ...

He split an atom for the first time in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England, earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... House X account also shared this at the time.

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom ... him a Nobel Prize in ...

"so we can keep the historic record on who split the atom first accurate". Widely regarded as the "father of nuclear physics", Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 for ...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was the first to split an atom in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England. The atom was fully split in a controlled manner in 1932 by British ...