Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest Rutherford was born on 30 August 1871 in Brightwater, a town near Nelson, New Zealand.

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For some time before his death, Rutherford had a small hernia, which he neglected to have fixed, and it became strangulated, rendering him violently ill. Despite an emergency operation in London, he died four days afterwards, at Cambridge on 19 October 1937 at age 66, of what physicians termed “intestinal paralysis”.

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Ernest Rutherford (Wikipedia) Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM FRS HonFRSE (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Rutherford has been described as “the father of nuclear physics”, and “the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday”. In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.” He was the first Oceanian Nobel laureate, and the first to perform the awarded work in Canada.

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