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‘That’s the one thing we did’: New Zealand irked by Trump’s false claim US split the atom

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Donald Trump reeled off a list of US achievements, including a claim that its experts split the atom.

However, that honour belongs to physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford , a New Zealander.

Rutherford managed the historic feat in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England .

The element rutherfordium was named after him in 1997 .

The mayor of Nelson near where Rutherford grew up said he would invite the US ambassador to New Zealand .

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