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 open ...

Ernest Rutherford: Just an ordinary boy is a children’s book written by award-winning author Maria Gill with intricate illustrations from artist (and Sunday Star-Times front page designer) Alistair ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, accomplished. Trump praised ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

With the 2022 Nobel prizes due to be announced, Physics World editors look at the physicists who’ve won prizes in fields other than their own. Here, Matin Durrani finds out how Ernest Rutherford ...

Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist, who postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, which led to the exploration of nuclear physics. He discovered alpha and ...

Revealing the science that propelled Nelson’s greatest son to a Nobel Prize, Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics traces key concepts in modern science from their origins in the work of ...

The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. The latest, at CERN in Switzerland, hopes to offer the world another great leap forward in understanding and another step in a process ...