Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays.

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

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

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford ... In 1919 Rutherford had discovered the proton, a positively charged ...

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

Trump's claim that American experts were responsible for this feat has been met with swift correction from New Zealanders, who proudly assert that their native son, Sir Ernest Rutherford, was the true ...

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 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 ...

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