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Ernest Rutherford
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Born
August 30
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1871
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Brightwater, Nelson, New Zealand
Died
October 19
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1937
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871 in Brightwater, Nelson, New Zealand. He died on October 19, 1937 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
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Codiscoverer of the chemical element radon in 1899.
The chemical element rutherfordium (symbol Rf; atomic number 104) is named after him.
Physicist and chemist.
Won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".
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