Ernest Rutherford - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1908
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Ernest Rutherford

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1908
for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances
Citizenship
New Zealand New Zealand
Languages
English
date of birth
8/30/1871
place of birth
Nelson, Brightwater, Spring Grove
date of death
10/19/1937
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
66 years

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employer
  • McGill University
    • start time: 1898
    • end time: 1907
  • Cavendish Laboratory
    • end time: 10/20/1937
    • start time: 1919
  • Victoria University of Manchester
    • start time: 1907
    • end time: 1919
  • University of Manchester
position held
  • member of the House of Lords
    • end time: 10/19/1937
    • start time: 1/22/1931
  • President of the Royal Society
    • end time: 1930
    • start time: 1925
  • Langworthy Professor
    • start time: 1907
    • end time: 1919
member of
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 3/5/1922
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1911
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 6/11/1903
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1904
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 4/4/1918
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Order of Merit
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
occupation
  • nuclear physicist
  • politician
  • professor
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • Pyotr Kapitsa
  • James Chadwick
  • Cecil Frank Powell
  • Nazir Ahmed
  • David Shoenberg
  • Edward Victor Appleton
  • Norman Alexander
  • Ernest Walton
  • Ernest Walton
  • Patrick Blackett
  • George Laurence
  • Alexander McAulay
  • Charles Drummond Ellis
  • Robert William Boyle
  • Douglas Hartree
  • Henry DeWolf Smyth
  • Harriet Brooks
  • Ralph H. Fowler
  • Yulii Khariton
  • C. E. Wynn-Williams
  • Leslie Fleetwood Bates
  • Ernest Marsden
  • Ernest Marsden
  • Alexander Leicester McAulay
  • Mark Oliphant
  • Mark Oliphant
  • Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry
  • Hans Geiger
  • John Cockcroft
  • John Cockcroft
  • Henry De Wolf Smyth
field of work
  • nuclear physics
  • physics
  • chemistry
  • radioactivity
educated at
  • Trinity College
  • Nelson College
  • University of Canterbury
  • University of Cambridge
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