After tracing many particles and examining the patterns, Rutherford deduced that the atom must have nearly all ... repetition of properties of the elements. The shells in which electrons orbit ...

Highlights included the discovery of the atomic nucleus in 1911, Henry Moseley's physical explanation of the different properties of chemical elements and the consequent Rutherford-Bohr model of the ...

Early on he found that all known radioactive elements emit two kinds ... with the age-old belief that the atom is indivisible and unchangeable. But by 1904 Rutherford's publications and ...

Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements like uranium and plutonium ... Regardless of who was first to split the atom, ...

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 ...

April 14, 1932 was a day that transformed subatomic physics forever as a lithium atom was split using a proton beam. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about the first accelerator-based physics experiment, ...

In ancient Greece, most people thought that matter was made up of combinations of four elements ... back off the foil Rutherford had discovered the nuclear atom, a small, positively-charged ...