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 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Somehow, he contrived to make his great discovery at a time when nobody wanted to hear about it, least of all Ernest Rutherford himself. Schott had uncovered something which might have held up the ...

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 ...