Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.

Jan 24, 2025 · Ernest Rutherford (born August 30, 1871, Spring Grove, New Zealand—died October 19, 1937, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) was a New Zealand-born British physicist considered the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867).

Jan 22, 2025 · 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.

Jan 21, 2025 · Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Jan 21, 2025 · Trump speech hailed the US feat, but New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford oversaw the trial in Manchester.

Apr 2, 2014 · A pioneer of nuclear physics and the first to split the atom, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of atomic structure. Dubbed the …

Jan 21, 2025 · Physicists, from left, Ernest Walton, Ernest Rutherford and John Cockroft outside the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in May 1932. (Len Puttnam/AP)

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

Aug 13, 2009 · The two most influential members of this committee were the Nobel prize winners Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford had recently moved from McGill University in Montreal to the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, Rutherford led the delegation to transfer submarine detection knowledge to them. While there he fruitlessly advised the United States government to use young scientists on problems associated with war work and not to waste their lives and skills in the trenches.