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 ...

Manchester is hosting a series of events to mark the centenary of a paper by Ernest Rutherford that changed the way we looked at the world and Universe around us. In 1911, Rutherford, described as the ...

Ernest Rutherford is best known for ‘’splitting the atom’’ at the University of Manchester in 1917 but at the same time as leading this ground-breaking research the scientist was helping tackle the U ...

Manchester at the beginning of the 20th century was already a scientific and industrial powerhouse. It was the epicentre of the industrial revolution and it had also been home to eminent scientists ...

Scientists at the university where Ernest Rutherford first split the atom have made another breakthrough discovery. The University of Manchester are celebrating a second atomic 'world first' which ...

Try to imagine the world before 1911, when the atomic nucleus was unknown. Much of what we now know about chemistry and nearly all of our understanding of nuclear physics was yet to come. This was the ...

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 open ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger in the lab in Manchester University where they investigated alpha particles. Photo / Getty Images Ernest Rutherford is so revered for his scientific ...

The Rutherford Building – originally called the Physics Laboratory – was opened in 1900. Its creator was Arthur Schuster, son of an Anglo-German mercantile family, graduate of Owens College, and a ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...