Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) [8], was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.

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Ernest Rutherford, British physicist who discovered that the atom is mostly empty space surrounding a massive nucleus and who did many pioneering experiments with radioactivity.

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Rutherford was knighted in 1914; he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1925, and in 1931 he was created First Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, and Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of …

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Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.

Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist and recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is often called the “father of nuclear physics.”

Ernest Rutherford is the father of nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics. He discovered and named the atomic nucleus, the proton, the alpha particle, and the beta particle.

Feb 2, 2026 · The Rutherford model supplanted the “plum-pudding” atomic model of English physicist Sir J.J. Thomson, in which the electrons were embedded in a positively charged atom like plums in a …