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 reality, it was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year ...

On arrival in Manchester in 1907, Rutherford set his assistant, Hans Geiger, to accurately measure how many were scattered through small angles. Two years later, Rutherford then gave an undergraduate ...

The latest, at CERN in Switzerland, hopes to offer the world another great leap forward in understanding and another step in a process which began in Manchester. The history of physics is filled ...

A ground-breaking Manchester University scientist who made history by helping to split the atom also developed sonar during top secret First World War missions. Ernest Rutherford has long been ...

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 ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi ...

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 ...

Rutherford’s secret war mission helped pioneer 'sonar' Date: November 9, 2014 Source: Manchester University Summary: Scientist Ernest Rutherford – famed for “splitting the atom” – also ...

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 ...

But in 1911 the city’s legacy was about to be strengthened again thanks to the physicist Ernest Rutherford, who had recently taken up the chair of physics at the University of Manchester. It was in ...

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 ...