Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as ... Rutherford's model wasn't quite ...

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting ... have fixed levels of energy within each type of atom. Bohr's 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think ...