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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He 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."
science · New Zealand physicist and chemist (1871–1937) · nuclear physicist · chemist · physicist · professor · politician · university teacher · also Ernest Rutherford, Ernest Lord Rutherford, E. Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, primer barón Rutherford. de Nelson, Ernest, Lord Rutherford, Rutherford
Born 30 August 1871 · Died 19 October 1937 · Q9123
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Wired-GOV: STFC announces latest Ernest Rutherford Fellows - Wired-GOV
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Published “The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 3,374 times.
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,662 times.
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Published “Expanded GGGGCC Hexanucleotide Repeat in Noncoding Region of C9ORF72 Causes Chromosome 9p-Linked FTD and ALS” in Neuron — cited 4,512 times.
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Published “Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum” in Nature — cited 3,670 times.
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Was named the tenth greatest physicist of all time
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Published “Recommended standards for reports dealing with lower extremity ischemia: Revised version” in Journal of Vascular Surgery — cited 3,082 times.
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Published “The Effect of Pravastatin on Coronary Events after Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Average Cholesterol Levels” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,639 times.
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Published “Effect of Captopril on Mortality and Morbidity in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction after Myocardial Infarction” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,546 times.
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For his work in perfecting the high-speed cloud chamber apparatus used to make that discovery and many others
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Died 1937-10-19.
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Was buried in Westminster Abbey near Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton
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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1936).
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Awarded Faraday Lectureship Prize (1936).
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Chadwick was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery
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Won T. K. Sidey Medal (1933).
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Rutherford's theory of neutrons was proved by his associate James Chadwick, who recognised neutrons immediately when they were produced by other scientists and later himself, in bombarding beryllium with alpha particles
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Won Echegaray Medal (1931).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of New Zealand (1931).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1931–1937).
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Won Faraday Medal (1930).
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Won Albert Medal (1928).
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Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1927).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1925).
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1925–1930).
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Won Franklin Medal (1924).
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Awarded IET Kelvin Lecture (1922).
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Won Copley Medal (1922).
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While working with Niels Bohr, Rutherford theorised about the existence of neutrons, (which he had christened in his 1920 Bakerian Lecture), which could somehow compensate for the repelling effect of the positive charges
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1920).
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1919).
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Won Dalton Medal (1919).
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Performed the first artificially induced nuclear reaction by conducting experiments in which nitrogen nuclei were bombarded with alpha particles
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Won Hector Medal (1916).
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Won Matteucci Medal (1913).
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Rutherford was joined by Niels Bohr (who postulated that electrons moved in specific orbits about the compact nucleus)
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Invited Niels Bohr to join his lab, leading to the Bohr model of the atom
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Theorised that atoms have their charge concentrated in a very small nucleus
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Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1910).
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Won Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1910).
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Rutherford, with Geiger and mathematician Harry Bateman published
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Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden performed the Geiger–Marsden experiment, which demonstrated the nuclear nature of atoms by measuring the deflection of alpha particles passing through a thin gold foil
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances
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Returned to Britain to take the Langworthy Professorship at the Victoria University of Manchester
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Career landmark: Langworthy Professor (1907–1919).
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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1905).
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Won Rumford Medal (1904).
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Rutherford suggested that radioactivity provides a source of energy sufficient to explain the existence of the Sun for the many millions of years required for the slow biological evolution on Earth proposed by biologists
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Awarded Bressa Prize (1903).
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Rutherford considered a type of radiation, discovered (but not named) by French chemist Paul Villard in 1900, as an emission from radium, and realised that this observation must represent something different from his own
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Awarded Knight Bachelor.
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Awarded Person of National Historic Significance.
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Awarded Order of Merit.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Won Faraday Medal and Prize.
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Studied at University of Cambridge.
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Studied at Nelson College.
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At St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui in Christchurch, Rutherford married Mary Georgina Newton (1876–1954), to whom he had been engaged before leaving New Zealand
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Studied at Trinity College.
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Studied at University of Canterbury.
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Career landmark: Participated in 3rd Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in 1st Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
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Coined the terms "alpha ray" and "beta ray" to describe these two distinct types of radiation
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Discovered the proton in streams of ionised gas, in 1920 Rutherford postulated the hydrogen nucleus to be a new particle, which he dubbed the proton
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Rutherford accepted the Macdonald Chair of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on Thomson's recommendation
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Discovered he had been outdone by Guglielmo Marconi, whose radio waves had sent a message across nearly 10 miles (16 km)
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Was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, to travel to England for postgraduate study in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
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After his second attempt, he won a scholarship to study at Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, between 1890 and 1894
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On his second attempt, he won a scholarship to study at Nelson College
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The Rutherford family moved to Havelock, in the Marlborough Sounds, where Ernest attended Havelock School
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Born 1871-08-30.
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