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.

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 ...

Lord Rutherford memorial at Brightwater has been restored to its site near. Photo / Jane King. A 35-year-old man has been arrested after a statue of Lord Ernest Rutherford was stolen from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Lord Rutherford visited New Zealand in 1925, he was received as a national hero. ... ERNEST RUTHERFORD. 1871: Born near Nelson. 1890-94: Goes to Canterbury University, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ERNEST RUTHERFORD was born in New Zealand on August 30, 1871, and he was well educated at schools in Brightwater and Nelson, where his headmaster was the famous cricketer W. J. Ford, formerly a ...