And politically influential: Ernest Solvay was elected to the Belgian Senate, for the Liberal Party. But after 30 years of producing soda, Ernest would leave his brother in charge of the company to ...

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

When President Donald Trump, in his second inaugural address last January, mistakenly credited Americans with splitting the atom, the reaction of shocked New Zealanders was immediate. In 1917, the ...

Kelly Rutherford is sharing the spotlight with her son Hermés Giersch. The 56-year-old Gossip Girl alum posed with her 18-year-old model son, whom she shares with ex-husband Daniel Giersch, on ...

Another interesting fact that you need to know about Ernest Rutherford is that he was the first to coin the terms “Alpha” and “Beta” when describing types of radiation. in 1899, he was ...

Ernest Rutherford, the famous nuclear physicist, was one of the brightest luminaries at Cambridge University when C. P. SNOW was doing his graduate work there. He came within the radiance of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, accomplished.

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.

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together.

Nick Smith, the mayor of Nelson, challenged Trump’s claim Americans split the atom, stating the feat was actually achieved by New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford.