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 ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated ... in creating chemical weapons in World War I. Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All science is either physics or stamp ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford ... In 1919 Rutherford had discovered the proton, a positively charged ...