Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand ... he called this new particle a proton. With this experiment, he was the first human to create a "nuclear reaction," though ...

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In fact, the honour belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could be ... history at the ...

When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford ...