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 ...

One of the photos is a closeup that focuses on some colorful artwork adorning the stainless-steel spacecraft — a pixelated, smiling cartoon banana holding a relatively realistic banana.

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ... done by Patrick Blackett, at Rutherford’s suggestion in Cambridge in the 1920’s, captured rare ...

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 ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford ...

In the midst of body image angst, people tend to forget about the body's important utility, and it does so much for us, too--our bodies get us from point A to point B, for example. Yet many people ...

How do you feel about automated vehicles? What effects do you think they will have on your generation? Read this article and post your comments and questions for Matt Richtel by Nov. 14. By The ...

An online forum where users post images and feedback. Originating in Japan, image boards cover numerous topics, each subject known as a "board." Image boards may have "chan" in their title such as ...

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

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 ...

A picture is worth a thousand words, but what if you could generate thousands of pictures with one sentence? Almost every ...

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 ...