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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 ...

Ernest Rutherford Would Like A Word. ... Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence of neutrons ...

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 ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

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 ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

So quipped the great New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm in 1908 shortly after he had won that year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Rutherford, who at the time ...

Ernest Rutherford is seen broadcasting during a home visit to New Zealand in 1926. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images Widely regarded as the "father of nuclear ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. 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, ...