Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

Why Solvay was Belgium’s titan of industry and ideas Ernest Solvay was laid to rest 100 years ago in the nearby Ixelles cemetery after a prodigious career, much of which is not widely known today.

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

Ernest Rutherford, left, and JJ Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930s. Initially, Rutherford’s legacy pointed to New Zealand as a potential leader in nuclear science. When I was growing up ...

From founding the scientific discipline of nuclear physics to his love for sports cars, here are some facts to know about Ernest Rutherford.

What did Rutherford do? Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911.

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant mind of Ernest Rutherford, the true father of nuclear physics.

Bohr began his lecture by elaborating on the central ideas behind his model, which were based on the work of Ernest Rutherford and Max Planck’s quantum theory.

James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, transformed nuclear physics. The work of the NObel Prize winner led to groundbreaking advancements in atomic theory, nuclear energy, and medical treatments, ...

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 -- ...