Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...

While an incredible achievement, few nuclear reactions could be achieved through bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles. Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence ...

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 ...