Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
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a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.
Born
30 August 1871 Brightwater, Colony of New Zealand
Died
19 October 1937 (aged 66) Cambridge, England
Known for
Discovery of alpha and beta radioactivity Discovery of atomic nucleus ( Rutherford model ) Rutherford scattering Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy Discovery of proton Rutherford (unit) Coining the
Fields
chemistry and Physics
Alma mater
University of New Zealand Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Awards
Rumford Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) Barnard Medal (1910) Elliott Cresson Medal (1910) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1911) Matteucci Medal (1913) Hector Memorial
Institutions
McGill University University of Manchester University of Cambridge
Spouse(s)
Mary Georgina Newton (m. 1900-1937, his death )
Academic advisors
Alexander Bickerton J. J. Thomson
adultbasic
Britain
Children
1 daughter (Eileen Mary Rutherford)
Citizenship
British subject, New Zealand
Doctoral students
Nazir Ahmed Norman Alexander Edward Victor Appleton Robert William Boyle James Chadwick Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry Norman Feather Daulat Singh Kothari Alexander McAulay Cecil Powell Henry DeWolf Smyth Ernest
era
1800+
Influenced
Henry Moseley Hans Geiger Albert Beaumont Wood
Other notable students
Edward Andrade Patrick Blackett Niels Bohr Bertram Boltwood Harriet Brooks Teddy Bullard John Cockcroft Charles Galton Darwin Charles Drummond Ellis Kazimierz Fajans Hans Geiger Otto Hahn Douglas Hartree
Preceded by
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Residence(s)
New Zealand, United Kingdom
Resting place
Westminster Abbey
Succeeded by
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins