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 ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

In 1911 Ernest Rutherford published his account of the experiments which showed that the atom has a massive electrically charged core. At the time even he was unaware of the importance of his ...

Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists. But his atomic model remains the best known work of a very long career.

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has ... Henry Moseley's physical explanation of the different properties of chemical elements and ...