The carving was commissioned by Pyotr Kapitsa, Nobel Laureate and leading Soviet physicist, who spent 13 years studying at the Cavendish. He was also known for setting up the Kapitsa Club, which was a ...

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. Ben Uffindell, editor ...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was addressing a high-profile ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear ... The pair was awarded a Nobel prize in 1951. Coincidently, Sir Ernest was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge when ...

After President Trump's claim, a mayor in New Zealand pointed out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by physicist Ernest Rutherford.

Widely regarded as the "father of nuclear physics," Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in ... Englishman John Cockcroft and Irishman Ernest Walton later performed the first ...

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.

"Nelsonians and New Zealanders should be very proud of Ernest Rutherford's achievement in 1917 in being the first to split the atom and we just need to politely remind Americans of that." Rutherford, ...