Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... study at Cambridge University in England -- a turning point in his life. There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

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 ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered ... he reasoned that since he knew the rate at which uranium breaks down (its half-life), he could use the proportion of lead in the ...

Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was a physicist and Nobel Prize winner who first split the atom. Paul Govey, Head of Student Communications and Marketing, tells us why Rutherford is his University of ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin, on 25 October 1937. The ...