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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).
It was founded in 1874 by the Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish was his family name), and its first professor was James Clerk Maxwell. [20] Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory was carrying out some of the most advanced research into nuclear physics in the world at the time. Oliphant was invited to afternoon tea by Rutherford and Lady Rutherford.
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 ...
Ernest Rutherford Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for splitting the atomic nucleus , which was instrumental in the development of nuclear power .
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] The marriage to Rutherford took place in 1932; four months later Rutherford shot himself. [5]
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 ]
Rutherford (name), people with the surname or given name Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, known as the father of nuclear physics; Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), an English actress; Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), 19th president of the United States (1877–1881)