There are stories that bring the personalities of the gifted scientists who drove the birth of the atomic age to life, ...

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 open ...

A university building at the centre of an investigation after six cancer deaths following nuclear experiments 100 years ago poses no more of a risk than passive smoking, an official report has found.

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

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You are in: Manchester > Science > Science features > The Ernest beginnings of particle physics Ernest Rutherford The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. The latest, at CERN ...

For the fourth time we choose Ernest Rutherford as New Zealander of the Year; this time not so much for his epoch-making discoveries as for his abilities as a scientific leader and administrator. He ...

With the 2022 Nobel prizes due to be announced, Physics World editors look at the physicists who’ve won prizes in fields other than their own. Here, Matin Durrani finds out how Ernest Rutherford ...

Radiation from experiments at a university 100 years ago is suspected of causing a cluster of cancer deaths. Three academics and an assistant have died after working in the laboratory used by Ernest ...