Try to imagine the world before 1911, when the atomic nucleus was unknown. Much of what we now know about chemistry and nearly all of our understanding of nuclear physics was yet to come. This was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...