Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden ...

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 ...

Although Rutherford did not explicitly suggest a planetary model of the atom ... there that in 1932 his colleagues James Cockcroft and Ernest Walton "split the atom" using the world's first ...

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 ...

Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford ... to work with Rutherford, used his quantum ideas to produce a stable orbit model of the atom.

All this set the stage for Ernest Rutherford ... Rutherford rejected Thomson’s model and instead proposed his own planetary model. This model comprised of a high central charge concentrated ...

In a profile of Ernest Rutherford, Chemistry World magazine's Mike Sutton explained that his model for the structure of an atom was largely shaped when he supervised one experiment. The test ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on ...