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
Ernest Rutherford quotes about
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.
hydrogen-atom long atoms
From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.
physics collecting stamp-collecting
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
possible research whatever
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't