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Rutherford was a New Zealander, who came to Manchester in 1907 to take up the Chair of Physics.
Manchester hosts a scientific conference and exhibition to mark the centenary of Ernest Rutherford's ground-breaking description of the structure of atoms.
But in 1911 the city’s legacy was about to be strengthened again thanks to the physicist Ernest Rutherford, who had recently taken up the chair of physics at the University of Manchester. It was in ...
Two physicists from The University of Manchester are among ten new recipients of Ernest Rutherford Fellowships from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The awards aim to help ...
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'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 ...
Manchester scientist Ernest Rutherford -- famed for "splitting the atom" -- also deserves better recognition for helping to pioneer a system we now know as sonar as part of a top secret World War ...
Ernest Rutherford was a Nobel prize winning physicist who virtually single-handedly created a new scientific discipline, namely nuclear physics.
Manchester plaque to honour Rutherford, the atom pioneer 8 August 2011 The genius who revealed to the world the structure of the atom is honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Manchester today.
Manchester hosts a scientific conference and exhibition to mark the centenary of Ernest Rutherford's ground-breaking description of the structure of atoms.
You are in: Manchester > Science > Science features > The Ernest beginnings of particle physics Ernest Rutherford The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. The latest, at ...
With the International Year of the Periodic Table of Elements in full swing, John Campbell celebrates the immense contribution of Ernest Rutherford, who first split the atom 100 years ago ...