1. ERNEST RUTHERFORD BY SOPHIE

2. PERSONAL PROFILE Date of birth- 30 th of August 1871 – 19 th of October 1937 From- New Zealand, UK, Canada Fields- Physics, chemistry Education- University of Cambridge

3. Ernest Rutherford was well know for ●Father of nuclear physics ●Spectroscopy ●Rutherford model ●Discovery of proton ●Rutherford scattering ●Rutherford (unit) ●Rutherford backscattering ●Coining the term ‘artificial disintegration’ ERNEST RUTHERFORD WORK

4. MEDALS ●Rumford medal ●Matteucci medal ●Nobel prize in chemistry ●Copley medal ●Elliott Cresson medal ●Franklin medal

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