Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. ... In 1907 he went to the University of Manchester and with Hans Geiger (of the Geiger counter) set up a center to study radiation.

On arrival in Manchester in 1907, Rutherford set his assistant, Hans Geiger, to accurately measure how many were scattered through small angles. Two years later, Rutherford then gave an undergraduate ...

So quipped the great New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm in 1908 shortly after he had won that year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Rutherford, who at the time ...

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 was born in New Zealand on August 30, 1871, and he was well educated at schools in Brightwater and Nelson, where his headmaster was the famous cricketer W. J. Ford, formerly a ...

In 1932, British and Irish scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's leadership, successfully split the atom at at the University of Cambridge.

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, ... In 1907 he went to the University of ...

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together. "These ...