One hundred years ago, Ernest Rutherford decided to shoot some stuff at atoms and toppled then-current atomic theory. Physicist and blogger Rhett Allain walks through the rise of six atomic models.

While an incredible achievement, few nuclear reactions could be achieved through bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles. Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence ...

In a profile of Ernest Rutherford, Chemistry World magazine's Mike Sutton explained that his model for the structure of an atom was largely shaped when he supervised one experiment.

In 1905, Ernest Rutherford did an experiment to test the plum pudding model. His two students, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, ... Rutherford had discovered the nuclear atom, ...

What to know about Trump's false claim. This was not the first time that Trump made such a bizarre claim that America split the atom in 2020. He made the similar claim while highlighting US ...

ATOM OF MATTER CAN BE DETECTED; Prof. Rutherford, Expert on Radio-Activity, Makes Successful Experiments. SUBSTANCES TRANSFORMED Accomplished by Expulsion of an "Alpha Particle," Which Prof ...

British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft, right, stand with Lord Rutherford outside the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, May 2, 1932.

The genius who revealed to the world the structure of the atom is honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Manchester today. An RSC Chemical Landmark Award will honour Ernest Rutherford, the New ...

In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together. "These ...