Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays.

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was one of twelve children ... was a fundamental building block of atoms. His discovery of the proton became a cornerstone of nuclear ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has been placed in the country’s top ten sites for ‘power, protest and progress’ by Historic ...