With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though a weak one. In 1919 he took over as director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

It describes how he had become the first person to split the atom, induce a nuclear reaction and be a successful alchemist. Rutherford had shown, for the first time, that protons were constituents of ...

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, 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 ...

The birthplace of "father of the atom" Ernest Rutherford willingly participated in British tests at Christmas Island in the 1950s (and looked eagerly for uranium in the Buller Gorge).

Here, Matin Durrani finds out how Ernest Rutherford scooped the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The face of chemistry: this Soviet-era postage stamp credits Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the atomic ...

A century ago, Ernest Rutherford inaugurated the nuclear age.

With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though a weak one. In 1919 he took over as director of the Cavendish Laboratory. His warm, outgoing personality made him an ...