In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting with cathode rays and crystals, leading to the realization that invisible rays could cause fluorescence and penetrate lightproof ...

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 ...

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 ...