L ike many another elderly and distinguished scientist, Britain’s Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom’s electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he ...

Ernest Rutherford Would Like A Word. ... "I will be inviting the US Ambassador to NZ (when appointed by the President) to ...

In Brussels was Britain’s gruff, burly Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom’s electrical structure, revered director of Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory.

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 ...

Ernest Lord Rutherford. The incident had a profound effect on Rutherford; when America joined the conflict in 1917, he unsuccessfully pleaded the case for allowing young American scientists to ...

RUTHERFORD'S grandfather had been one of the early settlers in New Zealand. His father owned and lived upon a flax farm in a rural district of South Island. Ernest, born in 1871, was the second ...

Donald Trump vexed New Zealanders on the first day of his presidency after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir Ernest Rutherford from Nelson in New Zealand. Mr Trump ...

A stolen statue of Lord Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of nuclear physics, will be reunited with its feet after a quick-thinking police officer dived into an icy New Zealand river to arrest the ...

For the fourth time we choose Ernest Rutherford as New Zealander of the Year; this time not so much for his epoch-making discoveries as for his abilities as a scientific leader and administrator ...

The Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize, normally awarded biennially, recognises distinguished research in nuclear physics or nuclear technology and is named in honour of Lord Rutherford of Nelson.