but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between 1914 and 1919 Rutherford conducted many experiments at the University by bombarding nitrogen ...

Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." ...

He blasted beams of radioactive particles into nitrogen ... efforts of Rutherford, laid the groundwork for the creation of ...

In 1917, Rutherford made another monumental discoveryâ the proton. He bombarded nitrogen gas with alpha particles and noticed that hydrogen nuclei were being ejected. This led him to conclude ...