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 ...

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 ...

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed ...

Revealing the science that propelled Nelson’s greatest son to a Nobel Prize, Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics traces key concepts in modern science from their origins in the work of ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. Trump’s ...

Linked lives Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant were closer than most mentors and students, but they still make an odd pairing for a biography. (Courtesy: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain ...

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with an embossed letterhead. Accompanied by an envelope with 2 stamps, postmarks, and cancellation. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron ...