Ernest Rutherford

The Richt Honourable Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford o Nelson, PC, OM, FRS (30 August 1871–19 October 1937), wis a New Zealand-born Breetish nuclear physicist. He wis kent as the "faither" o nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory o the atom, in his kenspeckle diskiverie o rutherford scatterin aff the nucleus wi his gowd foil experiment.

Rutherford wis born at Spring Grove (nou in Brightwater), naur Nelson. He studied at Nelson College an wan a scholarship for studie at Canterbury College, Varsity o New Zealand, wi three degrees an twa year o resairch at the forefront o electrical technology.

Nobel Prize winner in chemistry 1908.

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 Rutherford Scientist Supreme
 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry 
 Public Broadcasting Service 'Science Odyssey People and Discoveries'
 On the anniversary of Ernest Rutherford's discoveries http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford.html 
 http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/radiation/radhistory/ernestrutherford.html 

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