Imagine firing tiny particles at a sheet of gold and expecting almost all of them to pass straight through. That was, broadly, what Ernest Rutherford and his colleagues expected. What happened instead ...

Daulat Singh Kothari met Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge after being told the Cavendish Laboratory was beyond reach. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

100 years ago on December 10, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. John Campbell, the author of Rutherford: Scientist Supreme and www. rutherford.org.nz, summarises the pathway.

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of ...

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