“We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.”

— Ernest Rutherford

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About Ernest Rutherford

Physicist • New Zealander

Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Through his pioneering work, he discovered the concept of radioactive half-life and proved that radioactivity...

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