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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Ernest Rutherford, famously known as 'Father of Nuclear Physics' was born on August 30, 1871. Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life and proved alpha and beta radiations in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A century ago, in December 1908, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his “investigations into the disintegration of the elements” or, put more simply, for helping establish ...

During the war Mosley was interned and the BUF was proscribed. John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton 'split the atom'. In fact, Cockcroft and Walton's achievement was to change the nucleus of one element ...