Ernest Rutherford ( ATOM MAN)

The creator of modern atomic physics and forerunner of the nuclear age, Rutherford was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 and a baronetcy in 1931, choosing the title Baron Rutherford of Nelson. In the words of Einstein, hew was "a second Newton", the man who "tunneled into the very material of God": inventor, experimenter and Nelson farm boy.

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