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          "Lord Rutherford" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Lord Rutherfurd or Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot.

          Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealandphysicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.

          Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867).

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          5. Apart from his work in his homeland, he spent a substantial amount of his career abroad, in both Canada and the United Kingdom.

          In early work, Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.

          This work was performed at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the basis for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he was awarded in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances", for