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 open ...

No discovery struck deeper into the scientific understanding of reality, with more profound implications for civilization, than Rutherford’s revelation of the architecture of the atom. A century ago ...

In his research, he proposed an atomic theory where he tried to describe the structure of atoms. Referred to as 'Rutherford's gold foil experiment,' his work is a part of science textbooks in schools ...