Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory ... had based it on very simple atoms. But there was good evidence he was right: the electrons in his model lined up with the regular ...

This simple act of enquiry foretold ... which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out. From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...