It was here that, in collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, Rutherford carried out the “gold foil experiment” that would establish the structure of the atom as we know it.

Creating more exotic isotopes will reveal the stellar formation of atoms — a fitting tribute to Ernest Rutherford, say Michael Thoennessen and Bradley Sherrill.

Rutherford's most groundbreaking work came when he conducted the famous gold-foil experiment in 1909. In collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, he directed alpha particles at a thin ...

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden performed the Geiger-Marsden experiment, also known as Rutherford gold foil experiment, under the direction of Rutherford.

Here, an illustration of Rutherford's particle scattering device used in his gold foil experiment. (Image credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Marsden and Geiger conducted the experiments primarily ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 ... With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though a weak one. In 1919 he took over as director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Referred to as 'Rutherford's gold foil experiment,' his work is a part of science textbooks in schools and colleges in India. It was in 1908 that the physics scholar received a Nobel Prize.

In reality, it was during a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society that the nuclear age was announced, on Tuesday, 7 March 1911, by Professor Ernest Rutherford, the 39-year ...

In 1911 the New-Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford published a paper that was to revolutionize science. Rutherford’s famous alpha-particle scattering experiment transformed our understanding of ...