Published in 1937, the study examined the hydrogen atom enclosed in an impenetrable sphere with a variable radius to simulate pressure effects. Such frugal models offer a great tool for understanding ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

Programme is part of mission to build world’s first nuclear fusion plant in the UK A particle accelerator in Oxfordshire is to rip up atoms to generate a crucial element for nuclear fusion ...

(AP Photo/Len Puttnam, File) Follow live updates on President Donald Trump’s return to Washington WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

Languages: English. New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement ...

The Mayor of Nelson has fact-checked newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump's claim an American split the atom. The atom was first split by Kiwi Sir Ernest Rutherford, originally from Nelson, in ...

The dissenting parties, at the very least, seem to agree on one thing: Whoever first split the atom, it was not an American. Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria University ...

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 ...

Whoever first split the atom, it was not an American. Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria University of Wellington and author of “Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...