For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was slightly put out, since he was a physicist and felt a bit superior to chemistry!

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"Rutherford, born in Brightwater ... as the uranium atom was first split in 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in December 1938, in Germany. It seems that some New Zealanders ...

Rutherford said he’d rather not have to ... “When you don’t have chemistry, it’s hard to be that consistent team because there’s too much going on in the room for everybody to concentrat ...

Rutherford, a farmer’s son who worked in the UK and Canada, was a researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was the first to split an atom in 1917 ...