Ernest Rutherford

Born: August 30, 1871
Quote: All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Spouse: Mary Georgina Newton
Education: University of New Zealand & Cambridge University
Named the atomic nucleus, the proton, the alpha and beta

Father of Nuclear Physics

Born in New Zealand

invented a new radio receiver while in college

attended Grad school at University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory

former physics professor @ McGill University in Montreal

split an atom and discovered the neutron

Golfing

motoring

Leader

Determined

won nobel prize

discovered atoms were not indestructible

James Chadwick

Fredrick Soddy

Hans Geiger

Niels Bohr

H. G. J. Moseley

J.J. Thomson

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