So quipped the great New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm in 1908 shortly after he had won that year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Rutherford, who at the time ...

Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...

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Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry includes famous winners such as Marie Curie and Otto Hahn. Here is a full list. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... 1908: Ernest Rutherford, ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...