Chemist no. 17 of 350 · Nuclear/Radiochemistry
Ernest Rutherford
1871-1937New Zealand/United KingdomNobel Chemistry 1908
Atomic nucleus; radioactive decay
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Rutherford and the Nuclear Atom: What the Gold Foil Revealed
Understand Rutherford's alpha scattering experiment, the discovery of the atomic nucleus and artificial transmutation, with exam points for JAM, NET and GATE.
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Ernest Rutherford: The Farm Boy Who Found the Nucleus
Biography of Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist and 1908 Nobel laureate in Chemistry who discovered the atomic nucleus. Life, career and legacy.
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