As part of an experiment with x-rays in 1909, Rutherford was shooting a beam of alpha particles (or alpha rays, emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... set up a center to study radiation. In 1909 he began experiments that were to change the face of physics. He discovered the atomic nucleus ...

Between 1914 and 1919 Rutherford conducted many experiments at the University by bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles. These experiments indicated that penetrating radiation was emitted that ...

Rutherford himself did not use the term splitting, referring instead to "disintegration". Writing in December 1917, he said ...

Dr Adam Rutherford & Dr Julia Shaw investigate humanity’s journey to understand the body, revealing stories that are littered with unethical experiments and unimaginable endurance. Does mind ...

Its essential feature-the nucleus-was first put forward by Rutherford in 1911 on the basis of experiments on the scattering of a-particles. So convincing is this model that after only twelve years ...

But it’s in the second half of the book that Rutherford, a science writer, begins to explore the extraordinary experiments that are testing the limits of the creation of life. Here he provides a ...

Rutherford's most groundbreaking work came when he conducted the famous gold-foil experiment in 1909. In collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, he directed alpha particles at a thin ...

Chadwick used a version of Rutherford's experiment, using a sheet of beryllium and a paraffin block instead of gold foil. He was able to prove that a proton-sized neutral particle - now known as ...

Quinn Weber was 2-for-3 with two RBI and a pair of singles for Rutherford in its 11-1 victory against Hawthorne in Rutherford. With the win, Rutherford head coach Carman Spina earned his 300th ...

Caitlin Zeger potted four goals for Pequannock and Dominique Dygos tacked on three of her own help their team to a 15-7 win over Rutherford in Rutherford. Pequannock scored the bulk its goals in ...