Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger in the lab in Manchester University where they investigated alpha particles. Photo / Getty Images Ernest Rutherford is so revered for his scientific ...

Imagine firing tiny particles at a sheet of gold and expecting almost all of them to pass straight through. That was, broadly, what Ernest Rutherford and his colleagues expected. What happened instead ...

No discovery struck deeper into the scientific understanding of reality, with more profound implications for civilization, than Rutherford’s revelation of the architecture of the atom. A century ago ...

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” That quote, repeated in many articles and books, is attributed to Ernest Rutherford, widely recognized as the father of nuclear physics. However, ...

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 open ...

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 ...

Mayor says he will invite incoming US ambassador to visit the memorial to Sir Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealander who split the atom in a British laboratory New Zealanders are not typically ones for ...

This year is the 100 year anniversary since Ernest Rutherford published his seminal paper describing his discovery of the atomic nucleus. But Rutherford was an industrious researcher who many ...