While an incredible achievement, few nuclear reactions could be achieved through bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles. Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence ...

British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft, right, stand with Lord Rutherford outside the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, May 2, 1932.

Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...