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 ...

The United States was built by immigrants ... In reality, this was accomplished in 1917 by Ernest Rutherford, a British scientist from New Zealand, now known as a founder of nuclear physics.

The honour in fact belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford ... "None of them originated in the United States." ...

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 ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has been placed in the country’s top ten sites for ‘power, protest and progress’ by Historic ...