Posts Tagged ‘Rutherford’
100-year-old model of the atom to be celebrated
A series of public lectures taking place next week will look at the legacy of Rutherford’s discovery and give citizens of Manchester the chance to join nuclear physicists from around the world in celebrating his 100-year-old model of the atom. The lectures will explain how fundamental physics has moved on from Rutherford’s discovery to the [...]
Young prizewinners visit top science facilities
A group of budding science students visited two of the UK’s leading science facilities last week as part of their prize for projects ranging from wave energy predictions to calculating the accuracy of GPS signals. The students all took part in the finals of the National Science & Engineering Competition at this year’s Big Bang [...]
Celebrate Rutherford
Pioneer of the nuclear age, Ernest Rutherford was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. 2009 marks the centenary of the Geiger-Marsden experiment, which led to his discovery of the atomic nucleus and began a whole new field of study: nuclear physics. Rutherford’s great-granddaughter Mary Fowler and physicists Paddy Regan and Gary Mathlin [...]
