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Manchester is hosting a series of events to mark the centenary of a paper by Ernest Rutherford that changed the way we looked at the world and Universe around us.
In 1911, Rutherford, described as the father of nuclear physics, presented his research to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, which - for the first time - described a "planetary structure" of atoms, one that we still recognise today.
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The Rutherford Centennial Conference on Nuclear Physics will be held at The University of Manchester on 8-12 August 2011. The event will celebrate the centenary of the publication of Rutherford's paper describing the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
The conference will mark one hundred years of the atomic nucleus by addressing the wide range of current topics characterising modern nuclear physics, including nuclear structure and astrophysics, hadron structure and spectroscopy, weak interactions and relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
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