Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford ... He continued Sir Joseph John Thomson's work on atomic physics and after much work on radioactivity he moved to the study of the ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

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

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered ... but advances in technology and knowledge of atomic structure have shown the earth to be even older. Uranium decay is so slow it can ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split ... ‘This discovery, and the earlier work done by Rutherford that established the existence ...

Bohr began his lecture by elaborating on the central ideas behind his model, which were based on the work of Ernest Rutherford and ... for understanding atomic structure, which was essential ...