Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

Ernest Rutherford with the two scientists who split the atom in the 1930s, John Cockcroft (left) and Ernest Walton. (NZ Herald Archive) In this year, Ernest Rutherford became director of the ...

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 ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford once tried to measure the distance of a thunderstorm by counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder. His father ...

In 1907 Schuster retired, and so the University sought the best possible successor. The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who had studied in ...

Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford made the second of his major discoveries. From experiments performed at McGill University in Canada ...

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However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...

A Rutherford County staple dating back to the 1850s will be removed this November. The historic courthouse sycamore tree is ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin, on 25 October 1937. The ...

Kentucky native Rutherford, known to the teen set as Gossip Girl’s Lily van der Woodsen, rose to fame as part of the ensemble drama Melrose Place, starring as Megan Mancini from 1996-1999.