After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as ... Rutherford's model wasn't quite ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited ...

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