Ernest Rutherford ... Acceptance of this model grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 ...

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 ...

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of ... these sorts of nuclear reactions ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ... defied the existing atomic model, which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out. From this, Rutherford proposed a ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure ... and the initiation of the field of nuclear physics. For this, Rutherford is known as the “father of nuclear physics ...