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 ...

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 ...

In her Newscripts column, Sarah Everts worried that Ernest Rutherford “would roll over in his grave if I called him a chemist” (C&EN, Aug. 22, page 64). She needn’t have worried. To a former student ...

No discovery struck deeper into the scientific understanding of reality, with more profound implications for civilization, than Rutherford’s revelation of the architecture of the atom. A century ago ...

This year is the 100 year anniversary since Ernest Rutherford published his seminal paper describing his discovery of the atomic nucleus. But Rutherford was an industrious researcher who many ...

Manchester is hosting a series of events to mark the centenary of a paper by Ernest Rutherford that changed the way we looked at the world and Universe around us. In 1911, Rutherford, described as the ...