| LC control no. | n 50024959 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 |
| Variant(s) | Lu-se-fu, 1871-1937 Lu-se-fu, O-nei-ssu-tʻe, 1871-1937 Rezerford, Ėrnest, 1871-1937 Rutherford, E. (Ernest), 1871-1937 Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st baron, 1871-1937 Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, Baron, 1871-1937 Rutherford of Nelson, Ernest Rutherford, Baron, 1871-1937 |
| Associated place | Christchurch (N.Z.) Manchester (England) |
| Birth date | 1871-08-30 |
| Death date | 1937-10-19 |
| Place of birth | Brightwater (N.Z.) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Chemists College teachers |
| Found in | His Radio-activity, 1904. Yen, K.N. Lu-se-fu yü hsien tai kʻo hsüeh ti fa chan, 1987: t.p. (Lu-se-fu) p. 1, etc. (O-nei-ssu-tʻe Lu-se-fu) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st baron, 1871-1937) Radio-activity, 2004: t.p. (E. Rutherford) cover (Ernest Rutherford) Wikipedia, November 10, 2016 (Ernest Rutherford; Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics; discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation at McGill University in Canada; awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908); moved in 1907 to the Victoria University of Manchester (today University of Manchester) in the UK; became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1919; The chemical element rutherfordium (element 104) was named after him in 1997; alma matres, University of Canterbury, University of Cambridge) |
| Associated language | eng |
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