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 ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

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 ...

Ernest, Chandler Walters, Rhys Rutherford and Cody Lohden's new EP, "Cadillac Sessions," showcases how the Deville Records collective blends classic country influences with modern pop sensibilities.

Here, Matin Durrani finds out how Ernest Rutherford scooped the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The face of chemistry: this Soviet-era postage stamp credits Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the atomic ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished.

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

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 ...

But by 1904 Rutherford's publications and achievements gained recognition. He was an extremely energetic researcher: in the span of seven years, he published 80 papers. In 1907 he went to the ...

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.