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 ...

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 ...

Manchester scientistd Ernest Rutherford – famed for “splitting the atom” – also deserves better recognition for helping to pioneer a system we now know as sonar as part of a top secret World War One ...

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 ...