It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. [ .]
DescriptionNew Zealand-born British chemist and physicist
AliasesErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
BornAugust 30, 1871
DiedOctober 19, 1937
CountryNew Zealand; United Kingdom
ProfessionNuclear Scientist; Chemist; Physicist
AwardsHector Memorial Medal; Nobel Prize In Chemistry; Matteucci Medal; Copley Medal; Franklin Medal; Elliott Cresson Medal; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Faraday Lectureship Prize
