Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of ... war work Dr Cliff said the scientists found "what we now call a proton", a building block particle present in all atoms.

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... he called this new particle a proton. With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though a weak one.

Ernest Rutherford first split the atom at The University of Manchester, so it’s only fitting that the next century’s discoveries in proton use should be pioneered here, at the UK’s first NHS ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford ... In 1919 Rutherford had discovered the proton, a positively charged ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... Professor of Nuclear Physics 'This was also the discovery of the proton and ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

Start here Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known ... postulating a central nucleus and identifying the proton. Trump's remarks provoked a flurry of online posts by New Zealanders about ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...