In reality, it was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the International Year of the Periodic Table of Elements in full swing, John Campbell celebrates the immense contribution of Ernest Rutherford, who first split the atom 100 years ago ...

Ominously, Rutherford realised that if the atom could be split, huge amounts of energy would be released. For the second time Ernest Rutherford is our New Zealander of the Year.

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.