This was the year that Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his "investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances". The prize ...

Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...

ERNEST RUTHERFORD was born in New Zealand on August 30, 1871, and he was well educated at schools in Brightwater and Nelson, where his headmaster was the famous cricketer W. J. Ford, formerly a ...

Trump speech hailed the US feat, but New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford oversaw the trial in Manchester.

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the 'father of nuclear physics' When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain ...

Rutherford deduced the nature of the atom. (NZ Herald Archive) Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford made the second of his major discoveries.

Ernest & Snoop Dogg Team Up on New Country Track ‘Gettin’ Gone’: Listen Ernest and Snoop Dogg have teamed up for the first release from an upcoming project to be released on Ernest's ...

Trump's remarks provoked a flurry of online posts by New Zealanders about Rutherford, whose work is studied by New Zealand schoolchildren and whose name appears on buildings, streets and institutions.

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to imply it was the US that split the atom – which it is not alone in and ...

‘Hope Cross’, built in the memory of Ernest Shackleton by his crew and put on display from today at Dundee’s Discovery Centre, is a physical reminder of a story worth repeating until the end ...