When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...

Let’s take a short break and look back into the history of “atom smashers” and the scientific progress they brought along. Proton accelerator used by Walton & Cockroft to split the atom.

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.

To help television audiences understand the story we were attempting to tell in Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield, we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...