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Ernest Rutherford
Physicist

Birthday August 30, 1871 (age 66)

Birthplace Brightwater , New Zealand

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Biographical Information	Ernest Rutherford (1871-08-30)30 August 1871 Brightwater ^[6], Colony of New Zealand ^[7]
Died	19 October 1937(1937-10-19) (aged 66) Cambridge ^[8], England
Resting place	Westminster Abbey ^[9]
Alma mater	University of New Zealand ^[10], Cavendish Laboratory ^[11], University of Cambridge
Legacy	See list Discovery of alpha ^[12] and beta radioactivity ^[13] Discovery of atomic nucleus ^[14] Discovery of proton ^[15] Discovery of radon ^[16] Artificial disintegration ^[17] Nuclear transmutation ^[18] Radiometric dating ^[19] Rutherford scattering ^[20] Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy ^[21] Rutherford gold foil experiment ^[22] Rutherford model ^[23] Rutherford (unit) ^[24]
Marital History	Mary Georgina Newton (married in 1900)
Children	1
Honors	See list Rumford Medal ^[25] (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry ^[26] (1908) Barnard Medal ^[27] (1910) Elliott Cresson Medal ^[28] (1910) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences ^[29] (1911) Matteucci Medal ^[30] (1913) Hector Memorial Medal ^[31] (1916) Dalton Medal ^[32] (1919) Copley Medal ^[33] (1922) Franklin Medal ^[34] (1924) Albert Medal ^[35] (1928) Faraday Medal ^[36] (1930) Wilhelm Exner Medal ^[37] (1936) Faraday Lectureship Prize ^[38] (1936)
Fields	Radioactivity ^[39], atomic physics ^[40], nuclear physics ^[41],
Institutions	McGill University ^[42], University of Manchester ^[43], University of Cambridge ^[44]
Academic advisors	Alexander Bickerton ^[45], J. J. Thomson ^[46]^[1]
Doctoral students	See list Nazir Ahmed ^[47]^[2] Norman Alexander ^[48] Edward Victor Appleton ^[49] Robert William Boyle ^[50] James Chadwick ^[51] Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry ^[52]^[3]^[4] Norman Feather ^[53] Alexander McAulay ^[54] Cecil Powell ^[55] Henry DeWolf Smyth ^[56] Ernest Walton ^[57] Evan James Williams ^[58] C. E. Wynn-Williams ^[59] Yulii Borisovich Khariton ^[60] Zhang Wenyu ^[61]^[5]^[6]
Other notable students	See list Edward Andrade ^[62] Patrick Blackett ^[63] Niels Bohr ^[64] Bertram Boltwood ^[65] Harriet Brooks ^[66] Teddy Bullard ^[67] John Cockcroft ^[68] Charles Galton Darwin ^[69] Charles Drummond Ellis ^[70] Kazimierz Fajans ^[71] Thomas Gaskell ^[72] Hans Geiger ^[73] Otto Hahn ^[74] Douglas Hartree ^[75] Pyotr Kapitsa ^[76] Daulat Singh Kothari ^[77] George Laurence ^[78] Iven Mackay ^[79] Ernest Marsden ^[80] Mark Oliphant ^[81] Thomas Royds ^[82] Frederick Soddy ^[83]
Preceded by	Charles Scott Sherrington ^[85]
Succeeded by	Frederick Gowland Hopkins ^[86]

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Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871 (age 65) in Brightwater, New Zealand. He is a Celebrity Physicist. The father of nuclear physics who discovered that atoms have a positive charge located in a nucleus in 1911. He also developed the concept of radioactive half-life, which describes the exponential decay radioactive substances. According to numerology, Ernest Rutherford's Life Path Number is 1.
His spouse is Mary Georgina Newton (m. 1900–1937, his death ). More information on Ernest Rutherford can be found here. This article will clarify Ernest Rutherford's Date Of Discovery, Contribution To Atomic Theory, Major Contributions, Facts, Year Of Discovery, Gold Foil Experiment, Fun Facts, Atom, Birth And Death, Discovery Date, and other information.

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He had five sisters and six brothers.

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Ernest Rutherford, born 8-30-1871, preceding his celebrity status in Physicist, he couldn't continue his work at Cambridge because of arcane rules about his young age.

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As an accomplished Physicist, he is widely credited as the first person to split the atom in a nuclear reaction in 1917 and he won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.

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Another famous physicist like him was Max Planck (Phys.). Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Marie Curie were also His acquaintances.

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Ernest Rutherford's Life Path Number is 1 as per numerology, he is a purposeful and a goal-oriented person who has a lot of determination and dedication to reach his goal. Such is the power of his zest to achieve something in life with hard work and resolution. He puts his heart and soul into accomplishing his goals.

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● Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871 (age 65) in Brightwater, New Zealand
● He is a Celebrity Physicist
● His spouse is Mary Georgina Newton (m. 1900–1937, his death )
● His real name is Ernest Rutherford

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