When Rutherford returned to his research in 1917, he wrote to Niels Bohr in December saying the he was “trying to break up the atom”, which he urged Bohr to regard as “private”. Rutherford studied ...

While an incredible achievement, few nuclear reactions could be achieved through bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles. Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence ...

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, it was ...

Rutherford scattering peaks at 0 degrees, and falls off smoothly but never reaches zero even at 180 degrees. In other words most of the time when it interacts with the nucleus, it’s still just a ...

Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting the atom’ in popular accounts, but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between ...

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 the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...

What to know about Trump's false claim. This was not the first time that Trump made such a bizarre claim that America split the atom in 2020. He made the similar claim while highlighting US ...

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together. "These ...

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 the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...