Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly ...

For four years, James Chadwick was a prisoner of war in Germany. When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head ...

Like many another elderly and distinguished scientist, Britain’s Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom’s electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an ...

Speeches at the commemorative session.--The general significance of the discovery of the atomic nucleus, by N. Bohr.--Honorary degree ceremony.--Correspondence between Ernest Rutherford and Sir Arthur ...