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 ...

In 1907 Schuster retired, and so the University sought the best possible successor. The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who had studied in ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of ... A website for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources credits Cockroft and Walton with the milestone ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as ... A website for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of History and Heritage Resources credits Cockroft and Walton with the milestone ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin, on 25 October 1937. The ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as ... A website for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of History and Heritage Resources credits Cockroft and Walton with the milestone ...