Biography of Philipp Lenard Sep 3, 2008
This was, however, soon superseded by the nuclear atom of Ernest Rutherford. Later Years and Legacy. (Suite101.com)
Physics Discoveries in Canada: Erne... Aug 25, 2008
Physics Discoveries in Canada: Ernest Rutherford: Disintegration Theory of Atom Discovered at McGill University, 1900 ... Physics Discoveries in Canada: Ernest Rutherford ... Physics Discoveries in Canada: Ernest Rutherford. (Suite101.com)
Nuclear, yes please! Jul 1, 2008
Ironically, it was a New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, who first split the atom. He had little faith in but saw early the potential for nuclear weapons. (CNN -- International)
At the Edge of Life's Code Mar 29, 2008
If your experiment requires statistics, British physicist Ernest Rutherford once said, you ought to have done a better experiment. But in working with microarrays, the experiment has been done without you, Wiggins explains. (Scientific American)
Early Particle Accelerators Mar 6, 2008
The methods for probing the reality of subatomic particles (slippery little devils as they are) began with experiments as simple as those with which the electron, proton and neutron were discovered firing beams of light or electrons at various substances and then making very precise observations and drawing as many conclusions as possible the options were rather limited, but physicists such as Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie showed great ingenuity around the turn of the century and beyond in... (Suite101.com)
Gatland's gripes a case of sour grapes Mar 4, 2008
Well, in that case big Wazza has clearly not heard of Kate Sheppard, Ernest Rutherford, Alan McDiarmid, Brian Barratt-Boyes, William Pickering, Maurice Wilkins, Harold Gillies, Fred Hollows, Archie McIndoe, Matt During, Marie Clay, Colin Murdoch or John Bedbrook. Gatland clearly doesn't know his history, or his science, or his medicine, or his politics. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
The Beginnings of Nuclear Physics Feb 29, 2008
The next great step in understanding radioactivity came from New Zealander Ernest Rutherford ( The Father of Nuclear Physics, he is sometimes called). Rutherford (who would later be commemorated with his very own radioactive element Rutherfordium) noticed in 1898 that when he allowed a sample of Uranium to radiate into a magnetic field, whatever particles were emanating from the sample were splitting and going in three different directions. (Suite101.com)
The Discovery of the Neutron Feb 28, 2008
In 1932, James Chadwick proved that the atomic nucleus contained a neutral particle which had been proposed more than a decade earlier by Ernest Rutherford. As of 1918, with Ernest Rutherford s discovery of the positively-charged proton, it surely seemed to many physicists as if a nearly complete model of the atomic structure was at hand. (Suite101.com)
Rutherford and the Atomic Nucleus Feb 26, 2008
New Zealander Ernest Rutherford made waves in the scientific community in the first couple decades of the twentieth century with his work on the atomic structure ... In 1909, New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, along with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden at the University of Manchester, performed a famous experiment in order to put the plum pudding model of the atom to the test. (Suite101.com)
Book review: Doomsday Men Jan 8, 2008
Smith theorizes that Szilard's love of science fiction gave him a creative advantage over his peers, notably Einstein, Enrico Fermi and Ernest Rutherford, all of them slow to envision the possibilities of atomic energy. This seems debatable, to say the least, but it certainly dovetails with Smith's larger purpose of exploring the crosscurrents between science-fiction writers and the physicists at work creating the atomic age. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Schell: Interview Dec 6, 2007
The thought arose by connecting work of the scientist Ernest Rutherford, who had recently given a speech on the transmutation of atoms, and a novel by H.G. Wells, The World Set Free, which described an atomic war. The science fiction writer's imagination and the scientist's information fused in his mind at that moment, and he realized that the world was in deep trouble. (Zmag.org)
Hardly 'junk' science: Royal Society examines climate change Oct 23, 2007
Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Christian Huygens, Lord Kelvin, Thomas Huxley, Edward Jenner, William Herschel, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Fred Hoyle, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and so on. These are not "junk" scientists. (Vancouver Sun)
Sheriff's report: Sept. 14-20, 2007 Sep 25, 2007
David Ernest Rutherford, 57, 532 Dickson Rd., Marietta, Ga. was arrested on Sept. 18, and charged with Theft by Receiving Stolen Property and Pedestrian Under the Influence. (Catoosa County News, GA)
The dating game Sep 13, 2007
In 1898 Marie Curie discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity and by 1904 Ernest Rutherford, a physicist working in Britain, realised that the process of radioactive decay could be harnessed to date rocks. It was against this background of dramatic and exciting scientific discoveries that a young Arthur Holmes (1890-1964) completed his schooling and won a scholarship to study physics at the Royal College of Science in London. (EurekAlert!)
Nuclear waste is hardly a worry with climate threat Jul 26, 2007
The world's first successful alchemist was the New Zealand scientist and Nobel prize winner Ernest Rutherford, and his discovery was almost accidental. It began when one of his students noticed that when radioactive materials such as radium were placed in a sealed box of air, small amounts of hydrogen, which doesn't exist in ordinary air, began to mysteriously appear. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
New frontierThe tiny matter of the greatest discovery of all time Jul 26, 2007
This astonishing discovery that atoms are mainly empty was made in 1909 in Manchester University by the indefatigable Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford had great courage as a scientist and was prepared to fly in the face of convention. (BBC News -- Science)
Read More... May 10, 2007
The first key experiment was conducted in 1909, under the direction of Ernest Rutherford. When Rutherford shot alpha particles at a wafer-thin sheet of gold foil, a small proportion of the particles bounced right back, a phenomenon that he described as "almost as incredible as if you fired a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you." Rutherford's work led to the realization that most of an atom's mass was concentrated in a tiny area, the nucleus. (Disinformation)
Isotope science to have wide-ranging impact, NSCL researcher says Feb 18, 2007
Ernest Rutherford discovered the nuclear nature of matter in the early 1900s. For most of history that followed, scientists curious about the dense knots of protons and neutrons that comprise atomic nuclei have for the most part been limited to studying the roughly 300 stable isotopes that exist in nature. (EurekAlert!)
Book Review: Uncertainty Feb 13, 2007
And while Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Ernest Rutherford, Max Planck, Erwin Schrdinger, Wolfgang Pauli and their colleagues were not prone to conventional catfights, they did have claws. As Pauli once said to Heisenberg, the irreverent young physicist who made waves in more ways than one: "It's much easier to find one's way if one isn't too familiar with the magnificent unity of classical physics. You have a decided advantage there, but then lack of knowledge is no guarantee... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Science great mourned by two nations Feb 9, 2007
In 2000 Professor MacDiarmid became the country's third Nobel Prize winner (after Sir Ernest Rutherford and Maurice Wilkins), winning the chemistry prize for his work with Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa on making plastics conduct electricity. The breakthrough paved the way for cheap plastic batteries and light-emitting diodes used in television screens and cellphones, among other things. (New Zealand Herald)
Making hay while Iowa sun shines Dec 9, 2006
Given it was a New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, who helped pioneer nuclear physics, maybe our friends over the Tasman should be charged with the job of keeping Australia's nuclear waste once we start producing radioactive waste from our greenhouse-friendly nuclear power stations. Maybe Helen Clarke and John Howard should have an arm wrestle to work out who should be PM. This column has a pretty good idea who would win. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
American Wins Chemistry Nobel for DNA Work Oct 6, 2006
He also spent time in the lab of nucleus-discoverer Ernest Rutherford. Both Thomson and Rutherford were later awarded Nobels for their work in chemistry. (NPR)
Meanwhile: Do sports really matter? Jun 30, 2006
I would not have read the story if the Mets lost - because it would have depressed me enough to affect my writing, which at the moment is about the physicist Ernest Rutherford and the splitting of the atom in the early years of the 20th century. I realize how juvenile this is, but it gets worse. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
- Martin Rees Jun 10, 2006
Ernest Rutherford, the leading nuclear physicist of his time, famously said in the mid-1930s that nuclear energy was "moonshine"; the inventors of lasers did not foresee that an early application of their work would be to eye surgery; and the discoverer of x-rays was not searching for ways to see through flesh. Science in the 21st century will present new threats more diverse and more intractible than nuclear weapons did. (Guardian Unlimited)
