Ernest Rutherford (28 Feb 1871 Jahr – 13 Okt 1937 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

Born: Brightwater, New Zealand August 30 1871
Died: Cambridge, United Kingdom (October 19, 1937)
Occupation: Physicist
Honors:
1908 received nobel prize,
discovered alpha and beta rays,
set forth the laws of radioactive decay,
identified alpha particles as helium nuclei
most important, he postulated the nuclear structure of the atom