| 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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