1908
Ernest Rutherford – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1908 The Chemical Nature of the Alpha Particles from Radioactive Substances The study of the properties of the a-rays has played a notable part in the development of radioactivity and has been instrumental in bringing to light a number of facts and relationships of the first importance. With increase of experimental…
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Ernest Rutherford – Biographical
Biographical
Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, immigrated to New Zealand with Ernest’s grandfather and the whole family in 1842. His mother, née Martha Thompson, was an English…
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Paul Ehrlich – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Ilya Mechnikov – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1908 On the Present State of the Question of Immunity in Infectious Diseases I am here before you by virtue of paragraph 9 of the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which states that “it shall be incumbent on a prize-winner, whenever this is possible, to give a public lecture on a…
moreErnest Rutherford – Other resources
Other resources
Links to other sites Video Trailer showing snippets of a documentary on Ernest Rutherford made by Rutherford.org.nz.
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