Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

The United States was built by immigrants ... in British and New Zealand scientific communities. In fact, it was Ernest Rutherford, a British scientist of New Zealand origin, who accomplished ...

Manchester scientistd Ernest Rutherford – famed for “splitting the atom” – also deserves better recognition for helping to pioneer a system we now know as sonar as part of a top secret World War One ...

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 ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford ...

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911 ... the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. The Office of Science is ...