When Rutherford returned to his research in 1917, he wrote to Niels Bohr in December saying the he was “trying to break up the atom”, which he urged Bohr to regard as “private”. Rutherford studied ...

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, it was ...

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 ...

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together. "These ...

Physicist Ernest Rutherford once explained the surprise results of his famed gold foil experiment to be “as if you fired a 15-inch naval shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit ...

Rutherford deduced the nature of the atom. (NZ Herald Archive) Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford made the second of his major discoveries.

ATOM OF MATTER CAN BE DETECTED; Prof. Rutherford, Expert on Radio-Activity, Makes Successful Experiments. SUBSTANCES TRANSFORMED Accomplished by Expulsion of an "Alpha Particle," Which Prof ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...

"Rutherford's discovery of the structure of the atom is right up there in 20th century science among the greatest discoveries. Right next to Crick and Watson's description of DNA".

While an incredible achievement, few nuclear reactions could be achieved through bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles.

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...