A few more examples that recently came to our attention are Klaus Hansen, the scientist who drank heavy water to test if it was safe for human consumption; and Harold Urey and Gioacchino Failla, who ...

earning him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1932, British and Irish scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's leadership, successfully split the atom at at the ...

The carving was commissioned by Pyotr Kapitsa, Nobel Laureate and leading Soviet ... was added to the wall of the Mond Laboratory for Ernest Rutherford, the famous physicist who researched atomic ...

It was here that he got to work on radioactivity and the disintegration of radioactive elements along with physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford ... Despite winning the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

The university’s faculty members share 74 Nobel prizes and 71 United States National Medals ... Famous names including Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Stephen Hawking have all ...

OPINION: Donald Trump may fancy, and like to get, a Nobel prize for peace, but his chances of getting ... any kiwi who has seen a NZ$100 bill will recognise the face of Lord Ernest Rutherford of ...

She did graduate work with Sir Ernest Rutherford, known as the father of nuclear physics, and was a key contributor to his theory on radioactive decay, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ...

A European Parliament member from Slovenia says he nominated tech giant Elon Musk for a Nobel Peace Prize for his free speech advocacy. “The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent ...

National Science Day 2025 theme is ‘Empowering Indian Youth for Global Leadership in Science & Innovation for Viksit Bharat.' ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has rejected a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, despite being recognized by a European Parliament member for his efforts to protect free speech. REUTERS/File Photo ...