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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", [ 7 ] and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday ". [ 8 ]
Ruth was descended from a line of distinguished scientists. [2] According to Martin Johnson, She was the granddaughter of Ernest Rutherford, who himself won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908, ‘for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances’ (Eve and Chadwick, 1938).
Thomas Royds (April 11, 1884 – May 1, 1955) was a British solar physicist who worked with Ernest Rutherford on the identification of alpha radiation as the nucleus of the helium atom, and who was Director of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, India.
This list of sibling pairs includes certain twins, provided they have at least one additional older or younger sibling, with also mentioned their reason of fame. Siblings are arranged alphabetically by last name; listed from oldest to youngest .
Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933 [1]) was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist.She is most famous for her research in radioactivity.She discovered atomic recoil, and transmutation of elements in radioactive decay.
Saintsbury's older sister, Dorothie Helen (known as Helen) was also an actress. Helen married first the actor Edgar Norfolk and, after a divorce, Captain Buckley Rutherford, a son of Sir Ernest Rutherford (a wine importer, not the physicist Ernest Rutherford, although they were both born in 1871 and are sometimes confused [3]). [4]
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The Lord Rutherford title is also now extinct. [3] From 1839 to 1851 Andrew Rutherford was MP for Leith. [3] He had also held the office of Lord Advocate and had been elevated to the Bench with the judicial title of Lord Rutherford. [3] Ernest Rutherford discovered the alpha particle and also developed the nuclear theory of atomic structure. [3]