Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

In 1902 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy discovered that radioactive elements ... the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. A few years later, in 1907, he reasoned that since he knew ...