Manchester celebrates the centenary of Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus. Skip to main content. IOP Publishing site. Menu Sign in; ... Rutherford’s big discovery – 100 years later. 01 Sep ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 ... Fritz Haber, however, who had been instrumental in creating chemical weapons in World War I. Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission.

This year is the 100 year anniversary since Ernest Rutherford published his seminal paper describing his discovery of the atomic nucleus. But Rutherford was an industrious researcher who many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rutherford deduced the nature of the atom. (NZ Herald Archive) Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford made the second of his major discoveries.

A hundred years have passed since Ernest Rutherford published his discovery of the atomic nucleus in May 1911 and started a journey to the centre of the atomic world.

The Danish physicist and philosopher conducted postdoctoral work at the Victoria University of Manchester following an invite from Ernest Rutherford. The New Zealander had discovered the atomic ...

In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting with cathode rays and crystals, leading to the realization that invisible rays could cause fluorescence and penetrate lightproof ...

He was fiercely anti-Nazi, and in 1933 he served as president of the Academic Assistance Council, established to help German refugees. He would not personally help chemist Fritz Haber, however, who ...