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Quote Author: Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a chemist (B.Sc. in chemistry and geology 1894, Canterbury College, New Zealand) and a physicist who became known as the "father" of nuclear physics. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom through his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment.

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