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

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and certainly wasn't the first to do.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear ... scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland's Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed ...

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was addressing a high ...

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