was later confirmed in an experiment by Rutherford's colleagues. "John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton developed a device, an accelerator, to generate more penetrating radiation," the Nobel Prize ...

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 ...

Ernest Rutherford, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, lecturing in New Zealand, 1926. Rutherford’s research in the United Kingdom in 1917 made him the first to split the atom.

confrontation with deputies that led to teen’s arrest Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

writing that he was “a bit surprised” by Trump’s claim “when that honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son,” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...