The first subatomic particle to be identified was the electron, in 1898. Ten years later, the British physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms have a very dense nucleus that contains protons.

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated ... There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays. Early on he found that ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom ... nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ... physicists in history. Rutherford's research laid the ...

However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary model’: ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has been placed in the country’s top ten sites for ‘power, protest and progress’ by Historic ...