Sir Lord Ernest Rutherford OM PRS FRS
(1871-1937)
Dalton Medal recipient, Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor of Physics (1907-1919), Nobel Chemistry Laureate (1908), Knight Bachelor (from 1914), 44th President of the Royal Society (1925-1930), Order of Merit recipient (from 1925), and 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (from 1931)
Commemorated on 2 plaques
Ernest Lord Rutherford (1871 - 1937). Langworthy Professor of Physics, University of Manchester 1907-1919 (in Coupland I Building). pioneer in Nuclear Physics. First to split the atom. Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1908.
Museum Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom where they worked
Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) Nobel Laureate led this laboratory 1907 - 1919 herein discovered the nuclear atom, split the atom, and initiated the field of nuclear physics
Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom where they was