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 claims ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speeches at the commemorative session.--The general significance of the discovery of the atomic nucleus, by N. Bohr.--Honorary degree ceremony.--Correspondence between Ernest Rutherford and Sir Arthur ...

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 ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.