Mathematician:Ernest Rutherford

Mathematician
New Zealand physicist who discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.

Nationality
New Zealander

History

 * Born: 30 August 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand
 * Died: 19 October 1937 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Rutherford Model


 * Rutherford Scattering
 * Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy
 * Rutherford (Unit)
 * Rutherfordium


 * Rutherford's Experiment that led to Nuclear Model of Atom

Publications

 * 1904: Radio-activity
 * 1905: Radio-activity, 2nd ed.
 * 1906: Radioactive Transformations
 * 1913: Radioactive Substances and their Radiations
 * 1926: The Electrical Structure of Matter
 * 1933: The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements
 * 1937: The Newer Alchemy

Also known as

 * The Right Honourable The Lord Rutherford of Nelson OM FRS


 * Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, HFRSE, LLD