Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
1871-1937![](https://phylogame.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ernest_Rutherford_1892.jpg)
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was a New Zealand physicist
discovered alpha and beta rays
set laws of radioactive decay, and identified alpha particles as helium nuclei
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