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.

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.

Linked lives Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant were closer than most mentors ... The senior physicist is therefore absent in the final, necessarily Oliphant-focused, third of the book, which gives ...

Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist, who postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, which led to the exploration of nuclear physics. He discovered alpha 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 ...

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 ...