Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

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Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

New Zealand is defending one of the most significant accomplishments by one of its people against claims from newly sworn-in United States President Donald Trump that an American was the first to ...

Newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump claimed America split the atom in his inaugural address, despite it being the ...

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The achievement is also credited to English scientist John Douglas Cockroft and Ireland’s Ernest Walton, researchers in 1932 at a British laboratory developed by Rutherford. It is not attributed ...