Ernest Rutherford
30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937
New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics, who discovered the atomic nucleus and achieved the first artificial nuclear transmutation. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioactivity.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Birth
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into radioactivity
1908
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Published his nuclear model of the atom based on the gold foil experiments
May 1911
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Reported the first artificially induced nuclear reaction
1919
By bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles he effectively 'split the atom'.
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Became director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge
1919
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Death
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