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 ... There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays.

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has been placed in the country’s top ten sites for ‘power, protest and progress’ by Historic ...

Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was one of twelve children ... was a fundamental building block of atoms. His discovery of the proton became a cornerstone of nuclear ...

In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting ... Further research by scientists like Ernest Rutherford categorized radioactive emissions into alpha, beta, and gamma rays ...

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