Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

While his humble birthplace may have suggested otherwise, New Zealand’s greatest scientist Ernest Rutherford was “the right man in the right place at the right time”. Made world-famous for ...

Ernest Rutherford is best-known for splitting the atom, but that's not his only claim to fame. The British physicist also helped pave the way for sonar technology. Rutherford produced a secret report ...

Then, John Cockroft and Ernest Walton split the atom using a high-voltage accelerator. "The age of big science had begun under Rutherford's guidance," writes John Campbell.

Dr Isobel Romero-Shaw will join Cardiff University from Cambridge as part of the 2025 cohort of the prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship.