For the first time, scientists have successfully mapped the shape of an electron while it moves through a solid. This ...

A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better ...

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...

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 ...

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 ...

J.J. Thomson — a professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge, who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be ...

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 ...