Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find ... Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists.

Ernest Rutherford's family ... grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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 ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford ... In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought them into scientific view ...