Born

30 August 1871(1871-08-30)
Brightwater, New Zealand

Died

19 October 1937 (aged 66)
Cambridge, England

Residence

New Zealand, UK, Canada

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Nationality

British-New Zealander

Ethnicity

British

Fields

Physicist-Chemist

Institutions

McGill University
University of Manchester

 

 

Doctoral students

Alexander MacAulay
Ernest Walton
Robert William Boyle
Cecil Powell
Nazir Ahmed

Other notable students

Mark Oliphant
Patrick Blackett
Hans Geiger
Niels Bohr
Otto Hahn
Teddy Bullard
Pyotr Kapitsa
John Cockcroft
Charles Drummond Ellis
James Chadwick
Ernest Marsden
Edward Andrade
Frederick Soddy
Edward Victor Appleton
Bertram Boltwood
Kazimierz Fajans
Charles Galton Darwin
A. J. B. Robertson
George Laurence
Henry DeWolf Smyth
Harriet Brooks
Douglas Hartree

Known for

Father of nuclear physics
Rutherford model
Rutherford scattering
Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy
Discovery of proton
Rutherford (unit)
Coining the term 'artificial disintegration'

Information Corner 

*Widely referred to as Lord Rutherford,

*He had a B.S. in chemistry and geology 1894.

*Later became known as the "father" of nuclear physics.

*He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom through his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment.

*He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.

 

 

 

 

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