Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRSwas a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 August 1871
CityBrightwater, New Zealand
business science thinking
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
atoms looks experiments
Now I know what the atom looks like.
sunshine air secret
When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
math science needs
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
pieces tissue-paper shells
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
lying men discovery
Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.
Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."
real physics stamps
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
science impossible physics
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
anyone atom expects moonshine power source talking
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine
past numbers pieces
I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results... In the past I have tried a number of experiments... but without any success.
character science two
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.
men administration steps
It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.
war mean air
The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.