Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited ...

Rutherford's model allowed him to make definite predictions ... It was there that in 1932 his colleagues James Cockcroft and Ernest Walton "split the atom" using the world's first particle ...

He initially handed off his investigation to two of his protégés, Ernest Marsden and Hans Geiger, according to Britannica. Rutherford reasoned that if Thomson's plum pudding model was correct ...

The Standard Model is our best theory for how the universe ... under the supervision of the Nobel Laureate Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester, performed their famous 'gold foil ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

That quote, repeated in many articles and books, is attributed to Ernest ... under whom Rutherford had studied, discovered the electron and formulated the “plum pudding model,” which described ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...