Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi ...

The inscription reads: 1871 ERNEST RUTHERFORD OF NELSON 1937 He was born on 30 August ... In 1908 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He continued Sir Joseph John Thomson's work on atomic ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford ...

Manchester was the birthplace of the nuclear age, when Ernest Rutherford's pioneering research led to the splitting of the atom. The computer revolution started here in June 1948 when a machine built ...