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Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

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Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson was a New Zealand physicist and British peer who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". In…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry,…
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