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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater si...

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If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly ever...

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I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

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Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as inc...

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Now I know what the atom looks like.

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Ernest Rutherford

Physicist

Born: 1871-08-30

Died: 1937-10-19

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist from New Zealand. He was known as the "father" of nuclear physics. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom based upon his previous discovery of Rutherford scattering in the gold foil experiment. Rutherford worked under J. J. Thomson as a research student in the Cavendish laboratory and, following prize-winning research at other institutions, became director of the Cavendish in 1919. As director, he oversaw the Nobel Prize winning research of Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft, who split the lithium atom using an early particle accelerator, called the Cockcroft–Walton generator.More