Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists. But his atomic model remains the best known work of ...

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 ... "not the kind of splitting ...

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting ... have fixed levels of energy within each type of atom. Bohr's 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think ...

In 1917, while at Victoria University of Manchester in England, Rutherford was the first to intentionally split the atom through a nuclear reaction. His discoveries not only defined the modern ...

Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at the U.K.'s Manchester University in 1917, Rutherford was "the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding ...

“Rutherford had ‘split the atom,’ the news headlines proclaimed, and the science of nuclear physics — the manipulation of the atomic nucleus — was launched, ” Priestley said. In ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the sub-atomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

In his Inaugural Address, Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom, an achievement credited by many to pioneering physicist Ernest Rutherford of New Zealand.

the moniker the "father of nuclear physics". Dr Sumner said the reaction Rutherford identified might more accurately be described as the process of an atom "absorbing a bit of material and ...

BBC Bitesize A simple model of an atom shows a nucleus orbited ... These, and the earlier efforts of Rutherford, laid the groundwork for the creation of atomic weapons, which harnessed the process ...