Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited a central ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father ... nucleus orbited by a number of electrons In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought them into scientific view, but the Manchester scientist ...

The discovery of the make-up of the nucleus (protons and neutrons) came much later, and was not made by Rutherford. The nucleus was calculated to be about 1/10,000th the size of the atom.

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split ... ‘This discovery, and the earlier work done by Rutherford that established the existence ...

He based his designs on the best German models and on new American ... tracers), Ernest Marsden (atomic nucleus) and James Chadwick (a Manchester student who later discovered the neutron). Hans Geiger ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford ... John Dalton's atomic theory brought them into scientific view, but the ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave ... He continued Sir Joseph John Thomson's work on atomic physics and after much work on ...

In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought ... Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a ...