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.

something that Sir Ernest Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, accomplished. During the speech after taking the oath of office for his second term in the White House, Trump praised America's ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

Ernest Rutherford came from New Zealand to study with JJ Thomson in Cambridge. He then worked with the chemist Frederick Soddy at McGill University, showing that radioactive substances decay at ...

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New-Zealand-born British physicist who is generally considered to be the father of nuclear physics. This medal comes with a prize of £1,000 and ...

The inscription reads: 1871 ERNEST RUTHERFORD OF NELSON 1937 He was born on 30 August 1871 near Nelson in New Zealand, son of James and Martha (Thompson). After education in New Zealand he moved to ...