Sir Ernest Rutherford

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:physicist
Physicist
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Manchester
gptkb:Victoria_University_of_Wellington
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry
gptkb:Copley_Medal
Royal Medal
Hughes Medal
gptkbp:born August 30, 1871
gptkbp:children gptkb:George_Rutherford
Evelyn_Rutherford
gptkbp:contribution Discovery_of_the_neutron
Discovery_of_the_proton
gptkbp:died October 19, 1937
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_New_Zealand
gptkbp:established alpha and beta radiation
Alpha and beta radiation
gptkbp:field Physics
Radioactivity
experimental physics
nuclear chemistry
radioactivity
gptkbp:honors Knighted_in_1931
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Ernest Rutherford
gptkbp:influence Modern physics
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:James_Chadwick
gptkb:Julian_Schwinger
gptkb:Robert_Millikan
gptkb:Kip_Thorne
gptkb:Andrew_Strominger
gptkb:Chadwick_Boseman
gptkb:Lise_Meitner
gptkb:Max_Born
gptkb:Michael_Green
gptkb:Wolfgang_Pauli
gptkb:Donna_Strickland
gptkb:Leonard_Susskind
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkb:David_Gross
gptkb:Edward_Witten
gptkb:Brian_Greene
gptkb:Juan_Maldacena
gptkb:Peter_Higgs
gptkb:Shamit_Kachru
gptkb:John_Cockcroft
gptkb:Steven_Weinberg
gptkb:Paul_Dirac
gptkb:Nima_Arkani-Hamed
gptkb:Cumrun_Vafa
gptkb:Hans_Bethe
gptkb:John_Schwarz
gptkb:Gerard_Mourou
gptkb:Lisa_Randall
gptkb:Leon_Lederman
Enrico Fermi
Frank Wilczek
Erwin Schrödinger
Leo Szilard
Niels Bohr
Maria Goeppert Mayer
David Kutasov
A._S._Goldhaber
James_Franck
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:J.J._Thomson
gptkbp:inventor gptkb:Rutherford's_atomic_model
Rutherford's_law_of_radioactive_decay
Rutherford_scattering
Rutherford's_theory_of_radioactivity
gptkbp:knownFor Nuclear physics
nuclear physics
gold foil experiment
disintegration theory
Rutherford_scattering
Rutherford_gold_foil_experiment
gptkbp:legacy Father of nuclear physics
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:New_Zealand
gptkbp:placeOfBirth Brightwater,_New_Zealand
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Manchester,_England
gptkbp:position Professor_of_Physics_at_the_University_of_Manchester
Director_of_the_Cavendish_Laboratory
gptkbp:researchField Acoustics
Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Condensed matter physics
Electromagnetism
Fluid dynamics
Geophysics
Materials science
Nanotechnology
Nuclear chemistry
Optics
Particle physics
Plasma physics
Theoretical physics
Thermodynamics
Biophysics
Statistical mechanics
Atomic physics
Environmental physics
Computational physics
Solid state physics
Experimental physics
Nuclear engineering
Medical physics
Applied physics
Radiation physics
Quantum_mechanics
Chemical_physics
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Mary_Newton
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry
gptkbp:work gptkb:Rutherford_model_of_the_atom