Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...

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 ...

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 ...

In reality, it was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year ...

Ernest Lord Rutherford. The incident had a profound effect on Rutherford; when America joined the conflict in 1917, he unsuccessfully pleaded the case for allowing young American scientists to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rutherford’s secret war mission helped pioneer 'sonar' Date: November 9, 2014 Source: Manchester University Summary: Scientist Ernest Rutherford – famed for “splitting the atom” – also ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly ...

You are in: Manchester > Science > Science features > The Ernest beginnings of particle physics Ernest Rutherford The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. The latest, at ...

Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford, known as the father of nuclear physics, is widely credited with being the first to split the atom. The achievement is not attributed to Americans.