PHYSICIST

Ernest Rutherford

1871 - 1937

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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Rutherford has received more than 5,552,489 page views. His biography is available in 135 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 129 in 2019). Ernest Rutherford is the 11th most popular physicist (up from 14th in 2019), the most popular biography from New Zealand and the most popular New Zealander Physicist.

Ernest Rutherford is most famous for his work with radioactivity and the discovery of the atomic nucleus.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ernest Rutherford ranks 11 out of 851. Before him are Stephen Hawking, Michael Faraday, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Pierre Curie. After him are Niels Bohr, James Prescott Joule, Robert Hooke, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, and Evangelista Torricelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Ernest Rutherford ranks 1. After him are Rosa Luxemburg, Marcel Proust, Friedrich Ebert, Alexander Scriabin, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Valéry, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Grazia Deledda, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1937, Ernest Rutherford ranks 2. Before him is H. P. Lovecraft. After him are Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Adler, Pierre de Coubertin, Antonio Gramsci, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, Erich Ludendorff, Amelia Earhart, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ranks 1 out of 303. After him are Edmund Hillary (1919), Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), Peter Jackson (1961), Katherine Mansfield (1888), Denny Hulme (1936), Alan MacDiarmid (1927), Thomas Williams (1930), Helen Clark (1950), and Chris Amon (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In New Zealand

Among physicists born in New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ranks 1. After him are Maurice Wilkins (1916).

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