Imagine firing tiny particles at a sheet of gold and expecting almost all of them to pass straight through. That was, broadly, what Ernest Rutherford and his colleagues expected. What happened instead ...

When Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden direct alpha particles at a thin gold foil, the expectation is that almost all of them ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. Trump's ...

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Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...

100 years ago on December 10, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. John Campbell, the author of Rutherford: Scientist Supreme and www. rutherford.org.nz, summarises the pathway.

THIS is the story of the men who smashed apart the atom. The history books record the names of only John Cockroft (above, left) and Ernest Walton (above, right), but there was a third man: Ernest ...