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Ernest Rutherford

Physicist · born 30th August 1871

Date of birth
30 August
Birth year
1871
Lived
66
Zodiac
♍ Virgo

About Ernest Rutherford

The father of nuclear physics who discovered that atoms have a positive charge located in a nucleus in 1911. He also developed the concept of radioactive half-life, which describes the exponential decay radioactive substances.

Ernest Rutherford was born 30th August 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand. Their primary profession is listed as physicist. They died in 1937. On 30 August, 584 people in our archive share this birthday.

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