Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays. Early on he found that all known radioactive elements emit two ...

Further research by scientists like Ernest Rutherford categorized radioactive emissions into alpha, beta, and gamma rays, leading to the understanding of radioactive decay and the concept of half ...

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic ... technique for nuclear physicists: high-resolution gamma-ray ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split ... the Nobel Prize in 1948 for work on cosmic rays.) It was with these first experiments ...

Ernest Rutherford came from New Zealand to study with JJ Thomson ... alpha and beta particles and gamma rays. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 while he was Langworthy Professor of ...