Rutherford
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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- Born in New Zealand
- Considered to be the greatest Physicist since Michael Faraday
- Discovered concept of Radioactive Half-Life.
- Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 for work above.
- He and Thomas Royds proved alpha radiation in helium.
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- Preformed greatest work after becoming Nobel Laureate
- He theorized atoms have their charge concentrated in a small nucleus
- Pioneered the Rutherford model of the atom through his discovery.
- He is widely credited with first "splitting the atom" in 1917.
- Under his leadership the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932
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