Ernest Rutherford
1871-1937
New Zealand-born British Physicist
Ernest Rutherford identified alpha and beta radiation, showed that an element could transmute by radioactivity, probed the interior struc...
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The British physicist Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871-1937), discovered transmutation of the elements, the nuclear atom, and a host of other phenomena to become the most promin...
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Ernest Rutherford's explanation of radioactivity earned him the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry, but his most renowned achievement was his classic demonstration that the atom consists of a small, dense ...
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Ernest Rutherford was one of the giants in the field of atomic physics as science was just beginning to understand this world of infinitesimal yet powerful reactions. He did important research on radi...
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Ernest Rutherford's explanation of radioactivity earned him the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry, but his most renowned achievement was his classic demonstration that the atom consists of a small, dense ...
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Biographies of Ernest Rutherford are studded with superlatives: "founder of nuclear physics"; "certainly the greatest scientist to emerge from New Zealand"; "a remarkable team leader"; and "one of the...
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From 1896-1919, "the father of nuclear physics" came upon many discoveries such as alpha, beta, and gamma rays, the proton, and the neutron, half-life of radioactive decay and daughter atoms. Through ...
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Lord Ernest Rutherford
Rutherfords life:
Ernest Rutherford was born in 1871. He was the second son in in his family and the fourth of 12 children. He was born in Spring Grove, (now known as Brightwa...
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