Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University ... ‘This discovery, and the earlier work done by Rutherford ...
Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...
Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... that were to change the face of physics. He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar ...
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 ...