As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford once tried to measure the distance of a thunderstorm by ...

Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford made the second of his major discoveries. From experiments performed at McGill University in Canada ...

Ernest Rutherford with the two scientists who split the atom in the 1930s, John Cockcroft (left) and Ernest Walton. (NZ Herald Archive) In this year, Ernest Rutherford became director of the ...