Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was ... surrounded by electrons. This "Rutherford model" would ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

Three years after winning the Nobel Prize for his work on radioactivity, Ernest Rutherford ... to work with Rutherford, used his quantum ideas to produce a stable orbit model of the atom.

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited a central ...

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

The building was not only occupied by Rutherford: Henry Moseley's physical explanation of the different properties of chemical elements and the consequent Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom were ...