As part of an experiment with x-rays in 1909, Rutherford was shooting a beam of alpha particles (or alpha rays, emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles should ... However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ...

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