He was best known for amassing more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles’ “White Album” and using them to demonstrate the aging ...

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

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

The carving was commissioned by Pyotr Kapitsa, Nobel Laureate and leading Soviet physicist, who spent 13 years studying at the Cavendish. He was also known for setting up the Kapitsa Club, which was a ...

Halford & Brough react to Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford's comments in the Globe & Mail, where he appeared to suggest that the team's current core could ...

“Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester ...

writing that he was “a bit surprised” by Trump’s claim “when that honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son,” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford. Ben Uffindell, editor ...

Mr Trump was called out on social media by Nick Smith, the mayor of the city of Nelson near where the physicist grew ... famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford,” Mr Smith said.

The 47th president of the US is now in office and President Trump’s second term looks certain to be consequential for the whole world. From the first words of his inauguration speech, Trump set the ...

Scientists have tracked an intense radio signal coming from deep in space to its origin – and been left shocked by what they found. For years, researchers have been looking to explain fast ...

Rutherford's achievement in 1917 ... His influence can be seen in the work of other scientists, such as John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, who successfully split lithium atoms using artificially ...

“That honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford. He was the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles.