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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

79 Splitting the Atom, Rutherford building, Manchester

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we travel with Neil to meet the man who split the atom!

Ernest Rutherford’s father said to his children, ‘without money we have to think’ – and think Ernest did. Ernest’s brain took him from his childhood home in rural New Zealand to a scientific career that spanned right around the world. In Manchester he assembled a brilliant and diverse team of fantastic minds. He built one of the largest and best equipped laboratories ever seen in the world and with his team set about exploring the infinitely complex universe within the atom. Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics


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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over.

0:22.4

Hello fellow time travellers I hope you're well a big thank you to everyone who's

0:26.2

signed up to my Neil Oliver Patreon site it's great to have you all aboard

0:30.0

sites packed full of history how it connects with the modern world and our day-to-day lives.

0:36.4

It features a new video every week.

0:38.4

There are competitions, there's a whole archive of great videos to catch up on if you've newly joined. I film them all here in

0:45.6

my home in Sterling, my wolf hounds are often in the back of the shot. If you see

0:50.3

things that look like shaggy ponies moving in the background.

0:53.0

That'll be them.

0:54.0

But most importantly, the site helps support the making of this podcast,

0:58.0

my love letter to the British Isles.

1:00.0

To sign up, simply go to Patreon.com and search for Neil Oliver.

1:04.0

Right, get ready to travel back in time to the Victorian era.

1:07.0

Here comes the next episode of my love letter to the British Isles.

1:11.0

Kew the music. Open minds, free minds.

1:13.0

Kicked open the door, leading into the atom and everything that that has meant for humankind ever since.

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