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 ...

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 ...

Atom Valley is one of the country's biggest infrastructure projects, with an ambition to harness Greater Manchester's tech ...

JJ Thomson and Ernest Rutherford, two pioneering figures in the field of atomic physics, engaged in a transformative ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford ...

The Bartol “boutique” marks its 100th birthday this week, celebrating with almost 100 physicists who are gathering at UD for ...

JJ Thomson studied electrical discharges in gases. Following the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity his imaginative work inspired many young researchers, including Ernest Rutherford, WL Bragg and ...

In 1911 Ernest Rutherford published his account of the experiments which showed that the atom has a massive electrically charged core. At the time even he was unaware of the importance of his ...

Katy Clough is the Ernest Rutherford Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, where she is also a senior lecturer in mathematics. Her research focuses on using numerical solutions to understand ...

In the introduction to John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph, English critic Geoff Dyer mentions four writers—Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger and Walter Benjamin—for whom photography “was ...

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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 ...