In 1907 the Nobel Committee for Physics rejected Rutherford on the grounds that “his observation of the decay of a chemical element (radium) should be awarded with the chemistry prize rather than the ...

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Ernest Rutherford 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Ernest Rutherford came from New Zealand to study with JJ Thomson in Cambridge. He then worked with the chemist Frederick Soddy at McGill University, ...

Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...

To Rutherford, even politicking and arranging the dispensation of Nobel Prizes were all great fun. Right up to his death, though, he believed that all the talk of eventual production of nuclear ...

The noble idea behind the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prizes originated from one guilt-ridden scientist's final will and testament — Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Nobel's goal was to reward ...

In their autobiographies, many Nobel laureates pay tribute to an outstanding mentor. Five of Enrico Fermi’s (physics, 1938) post-docs went on to win the Nobel Prize, and 12 of Ernest Rutherford ...

In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner actually became the first person to create an artificial nuclear reaction in laboratories at the University. Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting ...

Despite these failings, the Rutherford model derived from the Geiger-Marsden experiments would become the inspiration for Niels Bohr's atomic model of hydrogen, for which he won a Nobel Prize in ...