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

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished.

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

Its creator was Arthur Schuster, son of an Anglo-German mercantile family ... Geiger and Ernest Rutherford When Rutherford returned to Cambridge in 1919, Manchester appointed William Lawrence Bragg, ...

he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford oversaw Chadwick's PhD in ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... It was with these first experiments that Rutherford and his team became the ...