and one of the leading particle physics groups in the country. Having already successfully hosted an ERC starter and ERC CG grant in Manchester, I know from experience that this inclusive, diverse ...

Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based ... the moniker the "father of nuclear physics". Dr Sumner said the reaction Rutherford identified ...