That quote, repeated in many articles and books, is attributed to Ernest Rutherford, widely recognized as the father of nuclear physics. However, there is little evidence he ever said it.

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 ...

In reality, it was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year ...

In 1911 the New-Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford published a paper that was to revolutionize ... You can write science fiction books about that,” he says. And it is not just professional ...

This was the year that Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in chemistry ... of years of work at McGill University in Canada and his book Radioactivity which was published in 1904.

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...