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 ...

In total, 26 Nobel Prize winners have worked or studied here. Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics, where Ernest Rutherford first split the atom. The world’s first stored-program computer ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as ... the next U.S. ambassador to New Zealand to visit Rutherford’s birthplace memorial “so we can keep the historic record on who split the ...