Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays.

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

and James Chadwick (a Manchester student who later discovered the neutron). Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford When Rutherford returned to Cambridge in 1919, Manchester appointed William Lawrence Bragg ...

In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting ... Further research by scientists like Ernest Rutherford categorized radioactive emissions into alpha, beta, and gamma rays ...