In 1932, British and Irish scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's leadership, successfully split the atom at at the University of Cambridge.

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, ... a piece of the atom at high velocity.

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

THE first of the two annual soirées of the Royal Society was held at Burlington House on May 17. Sir Ernest Rutherford, president of the Society, received the guests, who were, on this occasion ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

Sir Ernest’s presidential address was a graphic summary of present knowledge of atomic and electronic theory, so much of which is his own contribution. It was broadcasted throughout England.

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together. "These ...

Who was Sir Ernest Rutherford? Rutherford, who belonged to a farmer's family, conducted research in nuclear and atomic physics while working in the UK and Canada.He split an atom for the first ...