A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

Ernest Rutherford had recently suggested the atom had a miniature, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of nearly weightless electrons. There were a few problems with the model, however.

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 ...

These particles should have passed straight through, according to the plum pudding model. However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford ... of the atomic nucleus in 1911, Henry Moseley's physical explanation of the different properties of chemical elements ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

which were based on the work of Ernest Rutherford and Max Planck’s quantum theory. His model proposed that: The Bohr model provided a quantum explanation for atomic stability and radiation ...

Ernest Rutherford had recently suggested the atom had a miniature, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of nearly weightless electrons. There were a few problems with the model, however.

These particles should have passed straight through, according to the plum pudding model. However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary ...