The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was slightly put out, since he was a physicist and felt a bit superior to chemistry!

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by physicist Ernest Rutherford.

Several elements are named after people. Many of the pioneers of nuclear physics and chemistry feature in the list of heavy, radioactive elements discovered since the mid-twentieth century: Ernest ...

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

De Hevesy studied chemistry and physics in his native Budapest, and then in Berlin, Freiburg, Zurich and Karlsruhe. From 1911 to 1913 he worked with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester, where he learned ...

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

Widely regarded as the "father of nuclear physics," Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 for ... Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton later performed ...

The inscription reads: 1871 ERNEST RUTHERFORD OF NELSON 1937 He was born on 30 August ... In 1908 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He continued Sir Joseph John Thomson's work on atomic ...