In 1908, Ernest Rutherford won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 30 August 1871 Brightwater, Colony of New Zealand.
Died: 19 October 1937 (aged 66) Cambridge, England.
Education: University of New Zealand Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Known as: Discovery of alpha and beta radioactivity, Discovery of the atomic nucleus, Discovery of the proton, Discovery of radon, Artificial disintegration, Nuclear transmutation, Radiometric dating, Rutherford scattering, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, Rutherford gold foil experiment, Rutherford model Rutherford (unit).
Awards: Rumford Medal (1904), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908), Barnard Medal (1910), Elliott Cresson Medal (1910), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1911), Matteucci Medal (1913), Hector Memorial Medal (1916), Dalton Medal (1919), Copley Medal (1922), Franklin Medal (1924), Albert Medal (1928), Faraday Medal (1930), Wilhelm Exner Medal (1936), Faraday Lectureship Prize (1936).
Fields: Radioactivity, atomic physics, nuclear physics.
