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 ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited a central ...

Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was ... surrounded by electrons. This "Rutherford model" would form the basis of modern atomic physics and paved the way for the quantum ...

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought ... Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a ...

The Danish physicist and philosopher conducted postdoctoral work at the Victoria University of Manchester following an invite from Ernest Rutherford ... the atomic nucleus in 1911 and further ...

The building was not only occupied by Rutherford: Henry Moseley's physical explanation of the different properties of chemical elements and the consequent Rutherford-Bohr model of the ... (radioactive ...