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Ernest Rutherford

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908

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Lord Rutherford talks about the challenges of and methods for breaking up atoms in a film made in December 1935 by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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Copyright © IEE, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1997
Credits: IEE Archives
Credits: Professor Robin Marshall, University of Manchester

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