Ernest Rutherford
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The Richt Honourable Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford o Nelson, PC, OM, FRS (30 August 1871–19 October 1937), wis a New Zealand-born Breetish nuclear physicist.[1] He wis kent as the "faither" o nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory o the atom, in his kenspeckle diskiverie o rutherford scatterin aff the nucleus wi his gowd foil experiment.[2]
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Rutherford wis born at Spring Grove (nou in Brightwater), naur Nelson. He studied at Nelson College an wan a scholarship for studie at Canterbury College, Varsity o New Zealand, wi three degrees an twa year o resairch at the forefront o electrical technology.[1]
Nobel Prize winner in chemistry 1908.[3]
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- Rutherford Scientist Supreme[4]
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry[5]
- Public Broadcasting Service 'Science Odyssey People and Discoveries'[6]
- On the anniversary of Ernest Rutherford's discoveries[7] http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford.html Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/radiation/radhistory/ernestrutherford.html Archived 2004-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
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