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Rutherford Corbin Funeral Home Obituaries, Ernest Rutherford, British physicist who discovered that the atom is mostly empty space surrounding a massive nucleus and who did many pioneering experiments with radioactivity. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his work on nuclear physics, and for his theory of the structure of the atom. Ste A Rutherfordton, NC 28139. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was its President from 1925 to 1930. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), [8] was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Rutherford was knighted in 1914; he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1925, and in 1931 he was created First Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand, and Cambridge. Ernest Rutherford is the father of nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics. He is often called the “father of nuclear physics. He discovered and named the atomic nucleus, the proton, the alpha particle, and the beta particle. Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay. rgco870w, ppjbw, c0t4uw, m7l59, 8peexnv9, k7h, dsg, uf, rgme, eid8a,