The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
Awarded on: 1908-11-10
"for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
Affiliations:
- Victoria University – Manchester, United Kingdom
Ernest Rutherford
Born: 1871-08-30 in Nelson, New Zealand
Gender: male
Field: New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Biography
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances." He was the first Oceanian Nobel laureate, and the first to perform the awarded work in Canada.