Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... In 1901 and 1902 he worked with Frederick Soddy to prove that atoms of one radioactive element would spontaneously turn into another, by ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, broke down into other elements in a predictable sequence or series. This amazing ...

Educated at private schools, Soddy went on to attend Eastbourne ... of radioactive elements along with physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, apart from serving as a lecturer in Chemistry.

Ernest Rutherford came from New Zealand to study with JJ Thomson in Cambridge. He then worked with the chemist Frederick Soddy at McGill University, showing that radioactive substances decay at ...