Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since ErnestRutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize ...
In 1907 Schuster retired, and so the University sought the best possible successor. The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint ErnestRutherford, a New Zealander who had studied ...