In reality, it was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year ...

Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) was an English chemist, and later economic theorist, whose career-defining work (some of it in collaboration with Ernest Rutherford) was to establish that radium decay ...

Ernest Rutherford – the scientist who first split the atom ... Soddy and Rutherford weren't afraid to use lurid, shocking imagery to do so. From there, the motif caught hold, ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. ... In 1901 and 1902 he worked with Frederick Soddy to prove that atoms of one radioactive element would spontaneously turn into another, ...

In 1902 Soddy, working with Ernest Rutherford in Montreal, discovered that the radioactive element thorium produces an emanation much like argon gas.

When in 1900 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University in Montreal, figured that thorium was spontaneously turning into argon by radioactive decay, Soddy exclaimed ‘This is ...

Ernest Rutherford – the scientist who first split the atom ... Soddy and Rutherford weren't afraid to use lurid, shocking imagery to do so. From there, the motif caught hold, ...

It was here that, in collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, Rutherford carried out the “gold foil experiment” that would establish the structure of the atom as we know it.

Linked lives Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant were closer than most mentors and students, but they still make an odd pairing for a biography. (Courtesy: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, ... In 1901 and 1902 he worked with ...