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 ... 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, sun ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model ... nuclear weapons which would harness ...

“X-ray beams are used everywhere, but since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, scientists have not been able to use them to ...

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting ... nucleus and for some of the nuclear mass. However, there was still a difference between the atomic number of the atom and the ...

The term "splitting the atom" isn't the most descriptive way of explaining what Rutherford, along with John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton ... which developed the first atomic bomb during World ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split ... ‘This discovery, and the earlier work done by Rutherford that established the existence ...

The centenary of the discovery of the quantum atom by Niels Bohr will be celebrated ... University of Manchester following an invite from Ernest Rutherford. The New Zealander had discovered the atomic ...