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 ...

Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was a physicist and Nobel Prize winner who first split the atom. Paul Govey, Head of Student Communications and Marketing, tells us why Rutherford is his University of ...

Proton accelerator used by Walton & Cockroft to split the atom. Walton sits in the small ... the beginning of the twentieth century when Ernest Rutherford discovered in 1919 that he could split ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest ... of the atom and fundamentally reshape how we understand the ...

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 ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest ... Rutherford had discovered the proton, a positively charged particle within the ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey ... Thomson's work on atomic physics and after much work on radioactivity he ...