Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist, “took things further,” Priestley said. While earlier experiments explored the atom and its structure, Rutherford and his colleagues manipulated the ...

Servin would be honoring her country by visiting the resting place of its greatest hero—the 19th American president, ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

In an election decided by the House of Representatives, Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democratic candidate Samuel Jones Tilden in the most controversial election in American history to date. Tilden ...

Taps is played at the conclusion of the wreath-laying ceremony. At right, members of the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G, with flag, and Robert D. Pollock, commander, the Ohio Commandery ...

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 ...

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 angered New Zealanders ...

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester in ...