Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden ...

There was little change in the understanding of the atom until John Dalton ... In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting that the electrons orbited the nucleus in different ...

These particles should have passed straight through, according to the plum pudding model. However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary ...

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'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 ...

Let’s take a short break and look back into the history of “atom smashers” and the scientific ... beginning of the twentieth century when Ernest Rutherford discovered in 1919 that he could ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, accomplished. During the ...

The centenary of the discovery of the quantum atom by Niels Bohr will be celebrated at the ... work at the Victoria University of Manchester following an invite from Ernest Rutherford. The New ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave ... much work on radioactivity he moved to the study of the structure of the atom. In 1920 he ...