Rutherford's discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Einstein referred to him as the 'second Newton' who ‘tunneled into the very material of God’.
Ernest Rutherford
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Full Name:
Ernest Rutherford
Lifetime:
30 Aug 1871 – 19 Oct 1937
Biography
Events In History
10 December 1908
Ernest Rutherford’s discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Albert Einstein called him a ‘second Newton’ who had ‘tunnelled into the very material of God’.
Main image: Ernest Rutherford stamp
Ernest Rutherford features in The A to Z of New Zealand stamp series produced by New Zealand Post in 2008.
