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 ...

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 ...

While an incredible achievement, few nuclear reactions could be achieved through bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles.

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 ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...

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 (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

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 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 Rutherford Building. The Rutherford Building – originally called the Physics Laboratory – was opened in 1900. Its creator was Arthur Schuster, son of an Anglo-German mercantile family, graduate of ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford, one of the founders of the modern atomic theory of Physics. Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium gives off invisible rays that affected photographic film in 1896.