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An inspiring leader of the Cavendish Laboratory, he steered numerous future Nobel Prize winners towards their great achievements: Chadwick, Blackett, Cockcroft ...
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, PRS, HonFRSE was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Rutherford has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", and "the greatest... Wikipedia
Born: August 30, 1871, Brightwater, New Zealand
Died: October 19, 1937 (age 66 years), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Influenced: Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Hans Geiger, and more
Academic advisors: J. J. Thomson and Alexander William Bickerton
Grandchildren: Elizabeth Rutherford Fowler, Peter Howard Fowler, and Eliot Patrick Fowler
Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal, Matteucci Medal, and more
Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born.