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 ...

Ernest Rutherford is one of the notable personalities in Science for his contributions to physics. On August 30, we observe his birth anniversary, the New Zealand-born physicist known to the world ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...