But Rutherford was an industrious researcher who many remarkable contributions to science, including three discoveries that revolutionised our view of matter. Rutherford’s first major scientific work ...

What Rutherford discovered was the atomic nucleus, containing virtually all the mass of an atom, confined to a volume one-quadrillionth (10-15) the size of the entire thing.

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. ... There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays.

Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting the atom’ in popular accounts, but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between ...

Chadwick discovers the neutron 1932. For four years, James Chadwick was a prisoner of war in Germany. When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was ...