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Lord Rutherford (1871–1937): The Newton of the Atom and the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1908
Author(s) -
Thomas John Meurig
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200803876
Subject(s) - atom (system on chip) , shoulders , physics , engineering , medicine , surgery , embedded system
On the shoulders of giants : Lord Rutherford, who developed the theory of nuclear disintegration and a model of the nuclear atom, was lauded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. His research career witnessed the beginning of the atomic age, and his research group was a hotbed of talented, young scientists.