Trump's 'Split Atom' Claim Vexes New Zealanders

Donald Trump's 'Split the Atom' Claim Vexes New Zealanders
New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement widely attributed to Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand -born scientist hailed as the father of nuclear physics.
Trump claims U.S. "split the atom." New Zealand says that's false.
After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by physicist Ernest Rutherford.
Trump claimed the United States split the atom. New Zealand begs to differ.
Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.
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