Ernest Rutherford 1871 ... With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though a weak one. In 1919 he took over as director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

In 1911 the New-Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford published a paper that was to revolutionize science. Rutherford’s famous alpha-particle scattering experiment transformed our understanding of ...

Rutherford's most groundbreaking work came when he conducted the famous gold-foil experiment in 1909. In collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, he directed alpha particles at a thin ...

Two years later, Rutherford then gave an undergraduate student, Ernest Marsden, a project to see if alpha particles were scattered back from a block of metal. Everyone knew that happened for beta ...

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden performed the Geiger-Marsden experiment, also known as Rutherford gold foil experiment, under the direction of Rutherford.

Here, an illustration of Rutherford's particle scattering device used in his gold foil experiment. (Image credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Marsden and Geiger conducted the experiments primarily ...

It was here that, in collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, Rutherford carried out the “gold foil experiment” that would establish the structure of the atom as we know it.

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. ... With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though a weak one. In 1919 he took over as director of the Cavendish Laboratory. His ...