A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

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

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

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

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

A small-town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump after the freshly sworn-in United States ...

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 ...

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” prompted ...

Nelson Mayor Nick Smith said on social media he was "surprised" to hear Trump making claims about the atom in his ...

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 ...