Jan 21, 2025 · A mayor in New Zealand's South Island said he was a "bit surprised" by the president's claim "when that honour belongs to Nelson's most famous and favourite son, Sir Ernest Rutherford".

6 days ago · Ernest Rutherford, British physicist who discovered that the atom is mostly empty space surrounding a massive nucleus and who did many pioneering experiments with radioactivity. He was also known for predicting the existence of the neutron and calculating Avogadro’s number.

Jan 21, 2025 · Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while he worked at a university in Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Jan 21, 2025 · A mayor in New Zealand's South Island said he was a "bit surprised" by the president's claim "when that honour belongs to Nelson's most famous and favourite son, Sir Ernest Rutherford".

Jan 21, 2025 · Physicists, from left, Ernest Walton, Ernest Rutherford and John Cockroft outside the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in May 1932. (Len Puttnam/AP) ... While listing the United States ...

Jan 22, 2025 · In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen gas with alpha particles – two neutrons and two protons, tightly bound together.

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", [7] and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday ". [8] .

Jan 21, 2025 · Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, accomplished.

Jan 21, 2025 · “I was a bit surprised by new president Donald Trump in his inauguration speech about US greatness claiming today Americans split the atom when that honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford,” Smith said in a post on Facebook.

Jan 21, 2025 · Rutherford, who died in the 1930s, was known as "the father of nuclear physics" for his research and was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry. His portrait has appeared on the New Zealand $100 note since 1992.