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 Crocodile" was Ernest Rutherford's nickname, given by his colleague Pyotr Kapitsa. It came from the idea that a ...

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 ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford once tried to measure the distance of a thunderstorm by counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder. His father ...

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science ...

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...

Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford made the second of his major discoveries. From experiments performed at McGill University in Canada ...

Credit: cambridgephysics.org The main motivation to build accelerators arose at the beginning of the twentieth century when Ernest Rutherford discovered in 1919 that he could split nitrogen atoms ...

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 ...

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 ...