When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

Flow chemistry is the development and study of chemical reactions whereby reactants are combined by pumping fluids, including solutions of reagents, through tubes at known rates. The relative ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest ... physics," Rutherford ...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was the first to ... by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was addressing a ...

The 47th president of the US is now in office and President Trump’s second term looks certain to be consequential for the ...

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 ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear ... He too won a Nobel prize for chemistry for “his investigations into the disintegration of the elements”. His achievements made ...

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 ...

Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New Zealand, 1926. Rutherford’s research in the United Kingdom in 1917 made him the first to split the atom.