Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Brightwater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker the "father of nuclear physics".

The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Bridgewater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker the "father of nuclear physics".

(Thomson’s model/ Rutherford’s model ... experiment using a thin sheet of solid hydrogen in place of the gold foil. (Hydrogen is a solid at temperatures below 14 K.)What results do you ...

for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 Rutherford’s most famous experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles. The unexpected results revealed ...

By Richard Sandomir Rutherford Chang, a conceptual artist who turned his collection of the Beatles’ “White Album” into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic — and who, in another ...

A new partnership with Rutherford County Mayor Joe Carr would establish a “study group” meant to find more efficient ways of disposing solid waste. “We have smart and thoughtful members in ...

Classen presented the plan on Tuesday in front of a relatively packed house at the Rutherford County Commission’s Public Works and Planning Committee meeting. He said the plan titled ...