The heart receives its own supply of blood from a network of arteries, called the coronary arteries. Two major coronary arteries branch off from the aorta near the point where the aorta and the left ventricle meet:
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) (1903-95), Irish physicist. Born in County Waterford, Ireland, Walton, with Sir John D. Cockcroft, received the 1951 Nobel prize in physics for the development of the first nuclear-particle accelerator.
Subatomic Particles The rather steady increase of atomic masses through the periodic table was explained when physicists managed to split atoms into three component particles. The exploration of atomic structure began in 1911, when Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who worked in Canada and England, discovered that atoms had a dense central nucleus that contained positively charged particles, which he named protons.