Ernest Rutherford - Wikipedia Rutherford is known as "the father of nuclear physics" because his research, and work done under him as laboratory director, established the nuclear structure of the atom and the essential nature of radioactive decay as a nuclear process
Ernest Rutherford | Accomplishments, Atomic Theory, Facts | Britannica Ernest Rutherford, British physicist who discovered that the atom is mostly empty space surrounding a massive nucleus and who did many pioneering experiments with radioactivity He was also known for predicting the existence of the neutron and calculating Avogadro’s number
Ernest Rutherford - Science History Institute Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908
Ernest Rutherford – Biographical - NobelPrize. org Rutherford was knighted in 1914; he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1925, and in 1931 he was created First Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, and Cambridge He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was its President from 1925 to 1930
Ernest Rutherford - Nuclear Museum Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist and recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry He is often called the “father of nuclear physics ”
Ernest Rutherford - Model, Discoveries Experiment - Biography A pioneer of nuclear physics and the first to split the atom, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of atomic structure Dubbed the “Father of the Nuclear