The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin, on 25 October 1937. The ...

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 ...

Working with Hans Geiger and and Ernest Marsden in Manchester, Rutherford (who had already received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the transmutation of atoms) devised an experiment ...