| Ernest Rutherford Born: 30-Aug-1871 Birthplace: Brightwater, New Zealand Died: 19-Oct-1937 Location of death: Cambridge, England Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Cremated, Buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England Executive summary: Father of Nuclear Physics "In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.". Father: James Rutherford (wheelwright) Mother: Martha Thompson (schoolteacher) Wife: Mary Newton (m. 1900, one daughter) Daughter: Eileen (m. physicist R.H. Fowler)
High School: Nelson College University: MA, University of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand (1893) University: BA, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1897)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1908 Knighthood 1914 Rumford Medal 1905 Matteucci Medal 1913 Copley Medal 1922 American Philosophical Society 1904 Royal Society Fellow 1903, President 1925-30 Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1921) Pontifical Academy of Sciences Chemical Element Namesake rutherfordium (Rf, 104) Portrait on New Zealand Currency 100 NZD note Scottish Ancestry
Author of books:
Radioactivity (1904, nonfiction) Radioactive Transformations (1906, nonfiction) The Electrical Structure of Matter (1926, nonfiction) The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements (1933, nonfiction) The Newer Alchemy (1937, nonfiction)
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