Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as ... Rutherford's model wasn't quite ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden ...

Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was ... From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists of a tiny, dense ...

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 ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure ... of the different properties of chemical elements and the consequent Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom were ...