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 ...

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 ...

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 1871 - 1937. ... In 1907 he went to the University of Manchester and with Hans Geiger (of the Geiger counter) set up a center to study radiation.

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who had studied in Cambridge under Joseph John Thomson. As a young professor in Montreal, Rutherford had already attracted worldwide ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi scientific genius based at the then-Victoria University of Manchester, who ...

In 1911 the New-Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford published a paper that was to revolutionize science. ... And it is not just professional physicists who are celebrating the centenary of ...

In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could be split during experiments at Victoria University of Manchester in 1919.