He did this by “ bombarding light atoms with alpha rays and changing nitrogen into oxygen”, creating a nuclear reaction that revealed a highly charged energy particle.
Rutherford, who went on to become one of 25 Nobel Prize winners from UoM, became the first person to ever split the atom in 1917. Robert Oppenheimer The first-ever atomic bomb The aftermath of Hiroshima, 1945 ‘Fallen in the open’ via Library of Congress (public domain)įor anyone unfamiliar with the name Ernest Rutherford, two decades before Oppenheimer made his ground-breaking achievement, the physicist originally from New Zealand found himself researching radioactivity at none other than our very own University of Manchester. However, what Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project team and the US government did may have never been possible were it not for the scientific discovery of the one man right here in Manchester. the ‘father of the atomic bomb’, and how he changed the world forever.Ī controversial figure in history, for sure, the American theoretical physicist was responsible for inventing the ‘A-bombs’ that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and while they were initially intended to be used against the Nazis, that reality never came to be. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Nolan‘s new flick and three-hour-long epic revolves around the life and legacy of J. Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan’s epic new film Danny Jonesįriday, 21 July saw the release of 2023’s two biggest movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, and while we can’t think of any obvious Manc links to the iconic children’s doll and Greta Gerwig’s cinematic take on it, there’s a very real connection between Manchester and Christopher Nolan’s new film. Trending How one Manchester discovery links to Robert J.
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