Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from ... positively and negatively charged, or alpha and beta. He showed that every radioactive element decreases in radioactivity over a unique and regular ...

"Rutherford ... nuclei with alpha particles." The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ... Between 1914 and 1919 Rutherford conducted many experiments at the University by bombarding ...

Ernest Rutherford (right ... The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Brightwater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker ...