I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
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
