As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford once tried to measure the distance of a thunderstorm by ...

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 ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ... done by Patrick Blackett, at Rutherford’s suggestion in Cambridge in the 1920’s, captured rare ...

Ernest Rutherford with the two scientists who split the atom in the 1930s, John Cockcroft (left) and Ernest Walton. (NZ Herald Archive) In this year, Ernest Rutherford became director of the ...