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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).
Fowler was born in 1950 to Rosemary and Peter Fowler. [1] She comes from a family of eminent scientists. A great-grandfather was Ernest Rutherford, the 'father of nuclear physics', her grandfather, Rutherford's son-in-law, was the mathematical physicist Ralph H. Fowler, [2] and her mother Rosemary discovered the kaon, or K meson particle, in 1948.
In 1921 he married Eileen Mary (1901–1930), the only daughter of Ernest Rutherford. They had four children, two daughters and two sons. They had four children, two daughters and two sons. Eileen died after the birth of their last child, Ruth Fowler Edwards , a geneticist and wife of Robert G. (Bob) Edwards , the "father" of in vitro ...
He established that lead (the metal) was the final decay product of uranium, noted that the lead-uranium ratio was greater in older rocks and, acting on a suggestion by Ernest Rutherford, he was the first to measure the age of rocks by the decay of uranium to lead, in 1907. He obtained results of 400 to 2200 million years, the first successful ...
Bickerton hoped he could get support from his most famous student Ernest Rutherford who commented on the theory: “the only satisfactory theory of accounting for the remarkable phenomena observed at the time of the appearance of a new star”. Rutherford wasn't an astronomer though, and he failed to sway opinion. Bickerton wasn't able to ...
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Ernest Rutherford Allen Goodrich Shenstone , OBE , MC (July 27, 1893 – February 16, 1980) was a Canadian physicist . He earned bachelor's , master's , and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University , as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge .