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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed ...

Donald Trump vexed New Zealanders on the first day of his presidency after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir Ernest Rutherford from Nelson in New Zealand. Mr Trump was ...

There are stories that bring the personalities of the gifted scientists who drove the birth of the atomic age to life, ...

Like many another elderly and distinguished scientist, Britain’s Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom’s electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an ...

Scientist Ernest Rutherford – famed for “splitting the atom” – also deserves better recognition for helping to pioneer a system we now know as sonar as part of a top secret World War One defense ...

FILE - British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft, right, stand with Lord Rutherford outside the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, U.K, May 2 ...