Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

Awarded the Prize “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, the chemistry of radioactive substances.”

British physicist. Rutherford was born at Nelson in New Zeal on August 30, 1871. In 1889, he entered the Canterbury College, University of New Zeal graduated M.A. in 1893. He received his B.Sc. degree there the following year, then he went to Trinity College, Cambridge at the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1898, he went to McGill University, Montreal to take up the post of the Macdonald Chair of Physics. He became Langworthy Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester in 1907 in 1919 he accepted as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 was its President from 1925 to 1930. Rutherford died on October 19, 1937 in Cambridge, Engl.