Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of n
Rutherford, c. 1920s
Rutherford in 1892
A statue of a young Ernest Rutherford at his memorial in Brightwater, New Zealand.
J. J. Thomson
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of
Ernest Rutherford
…was among the first 'aliens' (those without a Cambridge degree) allowed to do research at the university, and was additionally honoured to study under J. J. Thomson. With Thomson's encouragement, Rutherford detected radio waves at 0.5 miles (800 m), and briefly held the world record for the distance over which…
Thomson in 1915
Title page On the Chemical Combination of Gases by Joseph John Thomson 1856 1940
First page to Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism (1893)
Plaque commemorating Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory.