Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called ... These, and the earlier efforts of Rutherford, laid the groundwork for the creation of atomic weapons, which harnessed the process of nuclear fission ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from ... For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was slightly put out, since he was ...

However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...

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 ...

The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton ... which developed the first atomic bomb during World ...

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 ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the ... suggested the president had confused the discovery with the later creation of the atomic bomb. Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump made ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...