Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (30 August 1871–19 October 1937) was a New Zealand chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He discovered that atoms have their positive charge concentrated in a very small nucleus, and thereby pioneered the Rutherford model, or planetary, model of the atom, through his discovery and interpretation of Rutherford scattering in his gold foil experiment. He wa...
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Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1871
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1937 (age 66 years)
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- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
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