Person    | Male  Born 30/8/1871  Died 19/10/1937

Ernest Rutherford

Categories: Science

Countries: New Zealand

New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics, "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.

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Ernest Rutherford

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