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 ...

Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was a physicist and Nobel Prize winner who first split the atom. Paul Govey, Head of Student Communications and Marketing, tells us why Rutherford is his University of ...

Ernest Rutherford is best known for ‘’splitting the atom’’ at the University of Manchester in 1917 but at the same time as leading this ground-breaking research the scientist was helping tackle the U ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

In 1911 the New-Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford published a paper that was to revolutionize science. Rutherford’s famous alpha-particle scattering experiment transformed our understanding of ...

Manchester at the beginning of the 20th century was already a scientific and industrial powerhouse. It was the epicentre of the industrial revolution and it had also been home to eminent scientists ...

The descendants of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford have donated the historic Barony of Rutherford scroll to The University of Manchester. The scroll was formally presented to the ...

Speeches at the commemorative session.--The general significance of the discovery of the atomic nucleus, by N. Bohr.--Honorary degree ceremony.--Correspondence between Ernest Rutherford and Sir Arthur ...

Scientists at the university where Ernest Rutherford first split the atom have made another breakthrough discovery. The University of Manchester are celebrating a second atomic 'world first' which ...

Mayor says he will invite incoming US ambassador to visit the memorial to Sir Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealander who split the atom in a British laboratory New Zealanders are not typically ones for ...

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 ...