Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... positively and negatively charged, or alpha and beta. He showed that every radioactive element decreases in radioactivity over a unique ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ... Between 1914 and 1919 Rutherford conducted many experiments at the University by bombarding ...

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 ...