Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, ... This defied the existing atomic model, which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out.

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

Acceptance of this model grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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. In it, he laid out ...

The 1 cent stamp of the set includes a portrait of Rutherford along with a diagram of the Rutherford atomic model, which – correctly – envisaged electrons surrounding a dense central nucleus. The ...

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.

Ernest Rutherford is one of the notable personalities in Science for his contributions to physics. On August 30, we observe his birth anniversary, the New Zealand-born physicist known to the world ...

While Rutherford is credited for the initial splitting of the atom, Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton later performed the first controlled experiment to split an atomic nucleus ...

Acceptance of this model grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was ...

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. In it, he laid out ...