Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
– New Zealand-born British physicist
– father of nuclear physics; discovered radioactive half-life
– discovered proton; 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
– rutherfordium (element 140) was named after him in 1997.
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