Ernest Rutherford

1. Ernest Rutherford(30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) A New Zealand-British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics.

2. Scientific research • He coined the terms alpha ray and beta ray in 1899 to describe the two distinct types of radiation emitted by thorium and uranium. • From 1900 to 1903 Ernest Ritherford and Frederick Soddy collaborated on research into the transmutation of elements.

3. Scientific research • In 1903, Rutherford realised that a type of radiation from radium discovered (but not named) by French chemist Paul Villard in 1900 • In Manchester he continued to work with alpha radiation. • In late 1907 Ernest Rutherford and Thomas Royds allowed alphas to penetrate a very thin window into an evacuated tube.

7. Items named in honour of Rutherford's life and work • The element rutherfordium, Rf, Z=104. (1997)

8. Institutions • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, a scientific research laboratory near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. • Rutherford College, a school in Auckland, New Zealand • Rutherford College, a college at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK • the Rutherford Institute for Innovation at the University of Cambridge, UK • Rutherford Intermediate School, Wanganui, New Zealand • Rutherford Hall, a hall of residence at Loughborough University

9. Awards • Rutherford Medal, the highest science medal awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, New Zealand. • The Rutherford Award at Thomas Carr College for excellence in VCE Chemistry, Australia. • The Rutherford Memorial Medal is an award for research in the fields of physics and chemistry by the Royal Society of Canada. • The Rutherford Medal and Prize is awarded once every two years by the Institute of Physics for "distinguished research in nuclear physics or nuclear technology." • The Rutherford Memorial Lecture is an international lecture tour under the auspices of the Royal Society created under the Rutherford Memorial Scheme in 1952.

10. Buildings • Rutherford building at Bedford Modern School. • a building of the modern Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK • The Ernest Rutherford Physics Building at McGill University, Montreal, Canada[14] • Rutherford House, the primary building of Victoria University of Wellington's Pipitea Campus, originally the headquarters of the New Zealand Electricity Department, in Wellington, New Zealand. • the physics and chemistry building at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand • The Coupland Building at the University of Manchester where Rutherford worked was renamed The Rutherford Building in 2006. • The Rutherford lecture theatre in the Schuster Laboratory at the University of Manchester

11. Major streets • Rutherford Close, a residential street in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. • Lord Rutherford Road in Brightwater, New Zealand (near his birthplace) • Rutherford Road in the biotech district of Carlsbad, California, USA. • Rutherford Street in Nelson, New Zealand.

12. Other • Rutherford House, at Rotorua Intermediate School, Rotorua, New Zealand • The Rutherford Memorial at Brightwater, New Zealand • The crater Rutherford on the Moon, and the crater Rutherford on Mars • Image on the obverse of the New Zealand $100 note (since 1992). • Rutherford was the subject of a play by Stuart Hoar. • On the side of the Mond Laboratory on the site of the original Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, there is an engraving in Rutherford's memory in the form of a crocodile, this being the nickname given to him by its commissioner, his colleague Peter Kapitza. The initials of the engraver, Eric Gill, are visible within the mouth. • The Rutherford Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the Royal Society of New Zealand to support research in science and technology.

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