Mathematician:Ernest Rutherford

Mathematician

New Zealand physicist who discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.

Nationality

New Zealander

History

• Born: 30 August 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand
• Died: 19 October 1937 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Rutherford Model

• Rutherford Scattering
• Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy
• Rutherford (Unit)
• Rutherfordium

• Rutherford's Experiment that led to Nuclear Model of Atom

Results named for Ernest Rutherford can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ernest Rutherford can be found here.

Publications

• 1904: Radio-activity
• 1905: Radio-activity, 2nd ed.
• 1906: Radioactive Transformations
• 1913: Radioactive Substances and their Radiations
• 1926: The Electrical Structure of Matter
• 1933: The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements
• 1937: The Newer Alchemy

Also known as

• The Right Honourable The Lord Rutherford of Nelson OM FRS

• Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, HFRSE, LLD

Sources

• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Rutherford, Lord FRS (1871-1937)