Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... by expelling a piece of the atom at high velocity. Many scientists of the day scorned the idea as alchemy. They stuck with the age-old belief ...

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 ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...

However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...

In 1917, Ernest Rutherford changed the world when he split the atom at The University of Manchester - a breakthrough which resulted in the development of nuclear power, as well as cancer-fighting ...

However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...

The inscription reads: 1871 ERNEST RUTHERFORD OF NELSON 1937 He was born on 30 August ... after much work on radioactivity he moved to the study of the structure of the atom. In 1920 he predicted the ...