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 ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it first is almost as complex as the science involved. After all, as particle ...

In 1907 Schuster retired, and so the University sought the best possible successor. The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who had studied in ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... In 1907 he went to the University of Manchester and with Hans Geiger (of the Geiger counter) set up a center to study radiation.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as ... a nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The achievement is also credited to English ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi scientific genius based at the then-Victoria University of Manchester ...