Linked lives Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant were closer than most mentors ... The senior physicist is therefore absent in the final, necessarily Oliphant-focused, third of the book, which gives ...

Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford ... of the atom. "The Rutherford-Bohr atom features in chemistry and physics books used in schools ...

The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, actually achieved; splitting apart a nucleus by bombarding ...