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

April 14, 1932 was a day that transformed subatomic physics forever as a lithium atom was split using a proton beam.

However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...

Rutherford's most groundbreaking work came when he conducted the famous gold-foil experiment in 1909. In collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, he directed alpha particles at a thin ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...