EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION. Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was one of twelve children in a hardworking family. His father, a farmer and wheelwright, and his mother, a ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. ... He showed that every radioactive element decreases in radioactivity over a unique and regular time, or half-life, ultimately becoming stable.

Ernest Rutherford is best-known for splitting the atom, but that's not his only claim to fame. The British physicist also helped pave the way for sonar technology. Rutherford produced a secret ...

Linked lives Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant were closer than most mentors and students, but they still make an odd pairing for a biography. (Courtesy: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain ...

So quipped the great New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm in 1908 shortly after he had won that year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Rutherford, who at the time ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937. Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. ... He showed that every radioactive element decreases in radioactivity over a ...