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

The mayor of a New Zealand city has rubbished an eyebrow-raising claim made by President Donald Trump during his wild inauguration speech.

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could ... "None of them originated ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished.

Donald Trump has sparked outrage in New Zealand following a statement during his second-term inauguration speech in ...

It was physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, who managed to reach that historic milestone in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England and the element rutherfordium was named ...

Nelson Mayor Nick Smith said on social media he was "surprised" to hear Trump making claims about the atom in his inauguration speech. "That honour belongs to Nelson's most famous and favourite son ...

Donald Trump claimed in his inauguration speech that the US was the first to split the atom - despite the fact that Kiwi Ernest Rutherford was the first to ...

Recounts in key states affirmed Biden's victory ... and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand".

Dunedin publican Michael McCarrigan, owner of The Duke of Wellington, described the experience as unforgettable. “Standing in ...