biography
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Rutherford (of Nelson), Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron
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| lived:
| (1871–1937)
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| biography:
| Physicist, a pioneer of subatomic physics, born near Nelson, New Zealand. He studied at Christchurch University, moved to Cambridge, UK (1895), and in 1898 became professor of physics at McGill, Canada, where with Frederick Soddy he proposed that radioactivity results from the disintegration of atoms (1903). In 1907 he became professor at Manchester, developing the modern concept of the atom, and in 1911 propounded his theory of atomic structure. In 1919 he became professor at Cambridge and director of the Cavendish Laboratory. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, was knighted in 1914, and made a peer in 1931. |
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