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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 ]
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.
The Ernest Rutherford memorial includes a statue of the New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. It depicts Rutherford as a child, and is located near his birthplace in Brightwater , New Zealand. [ 1 ]
It was here Bickerton taught Ernest Rutherford where the two became lifelong friends and Bickerton became a mentor to Rutherford. Bickerton was offered the position of Chair of Chemistry and after acceptance he arrived with his wife and four children in Christchurch, New Zealand in June 1874. His new job was made harder without any lecture ...
Rutherford: Being the Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O. M. MacMillan. Ernest Rutherford (1899). "Uranium Radiation and the Electrical conduction Produced by it". Philosophical Magazine. 47 (284): 109– 163. Ernest Rutherford (1911). "The Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom" (PDF).
Last page thesis Harriet Brooks 1901, thanking Rutherford. Brooks was the first graduate student in Canada of Sir Ernest Rutherford, under whom she worked immediately after graduating. [5] With Rutherford, she studied electricity and magnetism for her master's degree.
Early life. Marcus "Mark" Laurence Elwin Oliphant was born on 8 October 1901 in Kent Town, a suburb of Adelaide. ... Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory, 1926.
1 Early life and education. 2 Career. Toggle Career subsection. 2.1 Books. ... focussing on Ernest Rutherford and the Manchester physics department between 1907 and ...