Lord Rutherford

E171971

Lord Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist whose work on atomic structure and radioactivity earned him the title "father of nuclear physics."

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instanceOf Nobel laureate
chemist
human
nuclear physicist
physicist
academicAdvisor J. J. Thomson
awardReceived Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
Copley Medal
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists)
surface form: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Rumford Medal
birthName Ernest Rutherford
burialPlace Westminster Abbey, London
surface form: Westminster Abbey
causeOfDeath intestinal paralysis
countryOfCitizenship New Zealand
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1871-08-30
dateOfDeath 1937-10-19
dateOfMarriage 1900-06-28
educatedAt Canterbury College
surface form: Canterbury College, University of New Zealand

Nelson College
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
fieldOfWork atomic physics
nuclear physics
radioactivity
honorificTitle 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
influenced Ernest Marsden
Hans Geiger
James Chadwick
Niels Bohr
knownFor Rutherford model of the atom
artificial transmutation of elements
discovery of alpha and beta radiation
discovery of the nucleus
half-life concept in radioactivity
scattering experiments with alpha particles
memberOf American Philosophical Society
Order of Merit
Royal Society
nickname father of nuclear physics
NobelPrizeCategory Chemistry
NobelPrizeMotivation for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances
NobelPrizeYear 1908
placeOfBirth Brightwater, New Zealand
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England
positionHeld director of the Cavendish Laboratory
professor at McGill University
professor of physics at the University of Manchester
religion Methodism
spouse Mary Georgina Newton
studentOf J. J. Thomson
workplace Cavendish Laboratory
surface form: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

McGill University
University of Manchester

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Ernest Rutherford honorificTitle Lord Rutherford