Ernest Rutherford, the Glossary
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.[1]
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198 relations: Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Alexander McAulay, Alexander William Bickerton, Alpha decay, Alpha particle, American Philosophical Society, Arthur Schuster, Artificial disintegration, Atom, Atomic emission spectroscopy, Atomic nucleus, Atomic number, Atomic physics, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, Baron, Bateman equation, Bertram Boltwood, Beta particle, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Bohr model, Brightwater, British Science Association, Bursary, C-SPAN, C. E. Wynn-Williams, C. F. Powell, Cambridge, Cathode ray, Cavendish Laboratory, Chair (Polish academic department), Charge (physics), Charles Darwin, Charles Drummond Ellis, Charles Galton Darwin, Charles Scott Sherrington, Chemical Society Reviews, Christchurch, Colony of New Zealand, Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South, Copley Medal, Council for At-Risk Academics, Daulat Singh Kothari, Debate, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand), Doctor of Science, Douglas Hartree, Driving, Edward Andrade, ... Expand index (148 more) »
- 19th-century British physicists
- 19th-century New Zealand physicists
- Cavendish Professors of Physics
- Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
- New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society
- New Zealand Nobel laureates
- New Zealand members of the Order of Merit
- New Zealand nuclear physicists
- New Zealand recipients of a British peerage
- People from Brightwater
- Recipients of the Dalton Medal
Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)
The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was instituted in 1864 as a memorial to Prince Albert, who had been President of the Society for 18 years.
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Alexander McAulay
Alexander McAulay (9 December 1863 – 6 July 1931) was the first professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.
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Alexander William Bickerton
Alexander William Bickerton (7 January 1842 – 21 January 1929) was an English-born chemist and educator who was the first professor of chemistry at Canterbury College (now called the University of Canterbury) in Christchurch, New Zealand. Ernest Rutherford and Alexander William Bickerton are 19th-century New Zealand physicists and experimental physicists.
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Alpha decay
Alpha decay or α-decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or "decays" into a different atomic nucleus, with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two.
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Alpha particle
Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.
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American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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Arthur Schuster
Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Ernest Rutherford and Arthur Schuster are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Artificial disintegration
Artificial disintegration is the term coined by Ernest Rutherford for the process by which an atomic nucleus is broken down by bombarding it with high speed alpha particles, either from a particle accelerator, or a naturally decaying radioactive substance such as radium, as Rutherford originally used.
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Atom
Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements.
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Atomic emission spectroscopy
Atomic emission spectroscopy (AES) is a method of chemical analysis that uses the intensity of light emitted from a flame, plasma, arc, or spark at a particular wavelength to determine the quantity of an element in a sample.
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Atomic nucleus
The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment.
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Atomic number
The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus.
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Atomic physics
Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science
The Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science was established in 1889 by the will of Columbia University president Frederick A. P. Barnard, and has been awarded by Columbia University, based on recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences, every five years since 1895.
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Baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical.
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Bateman equation
In nuclear physics, the Bateman equation is a mathematical model describing abundances and activities in a decay chain as a function of time, based on the decay rates and initial abundances.
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Bertram Boltwood
Bertram Borden Boltwood (July 27, 1870 Amherst, Massachusetts – August 15, 1927, Hancock Point, Maine) was an American pioneer of radiochemistry.
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Beta particle
A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay of an atomic nucleus during the process of beta decay.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.
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Bohr model
In atomic physics, the Bohr model or Rutherford–Bohr model is an obsolete model of the atom, presented by Niels Bohr and Ernest Rutherford in 1913.
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Brightwater
Brightwater (Māori: Wairoa) is a town southwest of Nelson in Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand.
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British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.
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Bursary
A bursary is a monetary award made by any educational institution or funding authority to individuals or groups.
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C-SPAN
Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.
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C. E. Wynn-Williams
Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 – 30 August 1979), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. Ernest Rutherford and C. E. Wynn-Williams are 20th-century British physicists.
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C. F. Powell
Cecil Frank Powell, FRS (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a subatomic particle. Ernest Rutherford and C. F. Powell are 20th-century British physicists, British Nobel laureates and experimental physicists.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Cathode ray
Cathode rays or electron beams (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes.
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Cavendish Laboratory
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences.
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Chair (Polish academic department)
Chair (Latin cathedra, Greek kathedra, "seat", Polish katedra) is an equivalent of an academic department in Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic, a division of a university or school faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline.
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Charge (physics)
In physics, a charge is any of many different quantities, such as the electric charge in electromagnetism or the color charge in quantum chromodynamics.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. Ernest Rutherford and Charles Darwin are Burials at Westminster Abbey and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Charles Drummond Ellis
Sir Charles Drummond Ellis (b. Hampstead, 11 August 1895; died Cookham 10 January 1980) was an English physicist and scientific administrator. Ernest Rutherford and Charles Drummond Ellis are experimental physicists.
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Charles Galton Darwin
Sir Charles Galton Darwin (19 December 1887 – 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. Ernest Rutherford and Charles Galton Darwin are academics of the Victoria University of Manchester.
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Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist. Ernest Rutherford and Charles Scott Sherrington are British Nobel laureates, English Nobel laureates, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Chemical Society Reviews
Chemical Society Reviews is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, for review articles on topics of current interest in chemistry.
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Christchurch
Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland.
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Colony of New Zealand
The Colony of New Zealand was a colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that encompassed the islands of New Zealand which was proclaimed by its British settler population in 1841, and which lasted until 1907.
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Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South
The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) is an inter-governmental organization, having a membership of 27 developing countries from three continents, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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Copley Medal
The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".
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Council for At-Risk Academics
The Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) is a charitable British organisation dedicated to assisting academics in immediate danger, those forced into exile, and many who choose to remain in their home countries despite the serious risks they face.
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Daulat Singh Kothari
Daulat Singh Kothari (6 July 1906 – 4 February 1993) was an Indian scientist and educationist.
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Debate
Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator and an audience.
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) was a government science agency in New Zealand, founded in 1926 and broken into Crown Research Institutes in 1992.
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Doctor of Science
A Doctor of Science (Scientiae Doctor; most commonly abbreviated DSc or ScD) is a science doctorate awarded in a number of countries throughout the world.
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Douglas Hartree
Douglas Rayner Hartree (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano. Ernest Rutherford and Douglas Hartree are academics of the Victoria University of Manchester.
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Driving
Driving is the controlled operation and movement of a land vehicle, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses.
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Edward Andrade
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet.
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Edward Bullard
Sir Edward Crisp Bullard FRS (21 September 1907 – 3 April 1980) was a British geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics. Ernest Rutherford and Edward Bullard are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Edward Victor Appleton
Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. Ernest Rutherford and Edward Victor Appleton are 20th-century British physicists, British Nobel laureates, English Nobel laureates and Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
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Elliott Cresson Medal
The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute.
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Ernest Marsden
Sir Ernest Marsden (19 February 1889 – 15 December 1970) was an English-New Zealand physicist. Ernest Rutherford and Ernest Marsden are 20th-century British physicists, new Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society and new Zealand nuclear physicists.
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Ernest Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton MRIA (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who first split the atom. Ernest Rutherford and Ernest Walton are experimental physicists.
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Evan James Williams
Evan James Williams FRS (8 June 1903 – 29 September 1945) was a Welsh experimental physicist who worked in a number of fields with some of the most notable physicists of his day, including Patrick Blackett, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. Ernest Rutherford and Evan James Williams are academics of the Victoria University of Manchester and experimental physicists.
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Experimental physics
Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments.
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Faraday Lectureship Prize
The Faraday Lectureship Prize, previously known simply as the Faraday Lectureship, is awarded once every two years (approximately) by the Royal Society of Chemistry for "exceptional contributions to physical or theoretical chemistry".
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Franklin Medal
The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 until 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull. Ernest Rutherford and Franklin Medal are Recipients of Franklin Medal.
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (20 June 1861 – 16 May 1947) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Gowland Hopkins are British Nobel laureates, English Nobel laureates, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy are academic staff of McGill University, British Nobel laureates, Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925), English Nobel laureates and Nobel laureates in Chemistry.
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Gamma ray
A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.
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George Laurence
George Craig Laurence (21 January 1905 – 6 November 1987) was a Canadian nuclear physicist.
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Golders Green Crematorium
Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, electrical engineer, and politician, known for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system. Ernest Rutherford and Guglielmo Marconi are experimental physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, radio pioneers, Recipients of Franklin Medal and Recipients of the Matteucci Medal.
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Half-life
Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.
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Hans Geiger
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist.
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Harriet Brooks
Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist. Ernest Rutherford and Harriet Brooks are persons of National Historic Significance (Canada).
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Harry Bateman
Harry Bateman FRS (29 May 1882 – 21 January 1946) was an English mathematician with a specialty in differential equations of mathematical physics.
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Havelock, New Zealand
Havelock is a small town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand, at the head of Pelorus Sound, one of the Marlborough Sounds, and at the mouth of the Pelorus and Kaituna Rivers State Highway 6 from Nelson to Blenheim passes through the town.
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Hector Medal
The Hector Medal, formerly known as the Hector Memorial Medal, is a science award given by the Royal Society Te Apārangi in memory of Sir James Hector to researchers working in New Zealand.
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Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
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Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford and Henri Becquerel are experimental physicists and Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Henry DeWolf Smyth
Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat.
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Henry Moseley
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915) was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. Ernest Rutherford and Henry Moseley are Recipients of the Matteucci Medal.
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Hernia
A hernia (hernias or herniae, from Latin, meaning 'rupture') is the abnormal exit of tissue or an organ, such as the bowel, through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides.
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Hornchurch
Hornchurch is a suburban town in East London in the London Borough of Havering.
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Hydrophone
A hydrophone (water + sound) is a microphone designed to be used underwater for recording or listening to underwater sound.
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IET Faraday Medal
The Faraday Medal is a top international medal awarded by the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (previously called the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)).
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Indian Science Congress Association
Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Ionization chamber
The ionization chamber is the simplest type of gaseous ionisation detector, and is widely used for the detection and measurement of many types of ionizing radiation, including X-rays, gamma rays, alpha particles and beta particles.
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Ionosphere
The ionosphere is the ionized part of the upper atmosphere of Earth, from about to above sea level, a region that includes the thermosphere and parts of the mesosphere and exosphere.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. Ernest Rutherford and Isaac Newton are Burials at Westminster Abbey, experimental physicists and presidents of the Royal Society.
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Isotopes of radon
There are 39 known isotopes of radon (86Rn), from 193Rn to 231Rn; all are radioactive.
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Iven Mackay
Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, (7 April 1882 – 30 September 1966) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both world wars.
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J. J. Thomson
Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found. Ernest Rutherford and J. J. Thomson are 20th-century British physicists, British Nobel laureates, Burials at Westminster Abbey, Cavendish Professors of Physics, experimental physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of Franklin Medal, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Dalton Medal.
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Jack Copeland
Brian Jack Copeland (born 1950) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and author of books on the computing pioneer Alan Turing.
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James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick are 20th-century British physicists, academics of the Victoria University of Manchester, British Nobel laureates, English Nobel laureates, experimental physicists, Recipients of Franklin Medal and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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James Jeans
Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Ernest Rutherford and James Jeans are Recipients of Franklin Medal.
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John Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was an English physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. Ernest Rutherford and John Cockcroft are 20th-century British physicists, British Nobel laureates, English Nobel laureates and experimental physicists.
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Kazimierz Fajans
Kazimierz Fajans (Kasimir Fajans in many American publications; 27 May 1887 – 18 May 1975) was a Polish American physical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium. Ernest Rutherford and Kazimierz Fajans are Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) and discoverers of chemical elements.
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Kiwi (bird)
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes.
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Knight Bachelor
The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.
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Langworthy Professor
The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.
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Lawrence Bragg
Sir William Lawrence Bragg, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. Ernest Rutherford and Lawrence Bragg are 20th-century British physicists, academics of the Victoria University of Manchester, British Nobel laureates, Cavendish Professors of Physics, English Nobel laureates, experimental physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Recipients of the Dalton Medal and Recipients of the Matteucci Medal.
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Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard (Szilárd Leó, pronounced; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian born physicist and inventor.
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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1903
This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1903.
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List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. Ernest Rutherford and List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry are Nobel laureates in Chemistry.
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List of presidents of the Royal Society
The president of the Royal Society (PRS), also known as the Royal Society of London, is the elected Head of the Royal Society of London who presides over meetings of the society's council. Ernest Rutherford and List of presidents of the Royal Society are presidents of the Royal Society.
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Magnetic detector
The magnetic detector or Marconi magnetic detector, sometimes called the "Maggie", was an early radio wave detector used in some of the first radio receivers to receive Morse code messages during the wireless telegraphy era around the turn of the 20th century.
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Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, popularly known as the Lit.
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Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie are Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925), discoverers of chemical elements, experimental physicists, Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureates in Chemistry and Recipients of the Matteucci Medal.
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Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.
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Marlborough Express
The Marlborough Express is a newspaper serving the Marlborough area of New Zealand.
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Marlborough Sounds
The Marlborough Sounds (te reo Māori: Te Tauihu-o-te-Waka) are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.
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Matteucci Medal
The Matteucci Medal is an Italian award for physicists, named after Carlo Matteucci from Forlì.
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Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Ernest Rutherford and Max Planck are Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925), Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Recipients of Franklin Medal and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Māori culture
Māori culture is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the Māori people of New Zealand.
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McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Membership of the National Academy of Sciences is an award granted to scientists that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States judges to have made “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Ernest Rutherford and Michael Faraday are 19th-century British physicists, experimental physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Nazir Ahmed (physicist)
Nazir Ahmed (or Nazir Ahmad) (1 May 1898 – 30 September 1973) was an experimental physicist and the first chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1956 to 1960.
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Nelson College
Nelson College is the oldest state secondary school in New Zealand, a feat achieved in part thanks to its original inception as a private school.
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Nelson Province
Nelson Province was constituted in 1853 under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and originally covered the entire upper South Island, including all of present-day Buller, Kaikoura, Marlborough, and Tasman districts, along with Nelson City, Grey District north of the Grey River, and the Hurunui District north of the Hurunui River.
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Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson (Whakatū) is a New Zealand city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island.
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Neutron
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Neutron generator
Neutron generators are neutron source devices which contain compact linear particle accelerators and that produce neutrons by fusing isotopes of hydrogen together.
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New Zealand Government
The New Zealand Government (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa) is the central government through which political authority is exercised in New Zealand.
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Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr are academics of the Victoria University of Manchester, Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925), Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Recipients of Franklin Medal, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Matteucci Medal.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.
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Noble gas
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Norman Alexander
Sir Norman Stanley Alexander (7 October 1907 – 26 March 1997) was a New Zealand physicist instrumental in the establishment of many Commonwealth universities, including Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, and the Universities of the West Indies, the South Pacific and Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
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Norman Feather
Norman Feather FRS FRSE PRSE (16 November 1904 – 14 August 1978), was an English nuclear physicist.
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Nuclear chain reaction
In nuclear physics, a nuclear chain reaction occurs when one single nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more subsequent nuclear reactions, thus leading to the possibility of a self-propagating series or "positive feedback loop" of these reactions.
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Nuclear force
The nuclear force (or nucleon–nucleon interaction, residual strong force, or, historically, strong nuclear force) is a force that acts between hadrons, most commonly observed between protons and neutrons of atoms.
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Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter.
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Nuclear reaction
In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei, or a nucleus and an external subatomic particle, collide to produce one or more new nuclides.
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Nuclear transmutation
Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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Order of Merit
The Order of Merit (Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture.
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Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. Ernest Rutherford and Otto Hahn are discoverers of chemical elements, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Nobel laureates in Chemistry.
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Particle accelerator
A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined beams.
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Patrick Blackett
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974), was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948. Ernest Rutherford and Patrick Blackett are 20th-century British physicists, academics of the Victoria University of Manchester, British Nobel laureates, English Nobel laureates, experimental physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Recipients of the Dalton Medal.
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Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin (23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. Ernest Rutherford and Paul Langevin are Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925), Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Paul Ulrich Villard
Paul Ulrich Villard (28 September 1860 – 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist.
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Perth, Scotland
Perth (Scottish English:; Peairt) is a centrally located Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay.
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Piezoelectric sensor
A piezoelectric sensor is a device that uses the piezoelectric effect to measure changes in pressure, acceleration, temperature, strain, or force by converting them to an electrical charge.
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Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress.
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.
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Poisson distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time if these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society
Proceedings of the Royal Society is the main research journal of the Royal Society.
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Protactinium
Protactinium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pa and atomic number 91.
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Proton
A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).
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Prout's hypothesis
Prout's hypothesis was an early 19th-century attempt to explain the existence of the various chemical elements through a hypothesis regarding the internal structure of the atom. Ernest Rutherford and Prout's hypothesis are discoverers of chemical elements.
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Pyotr Kapitsa
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Пётр Леонидович Капица, Petre Capița; – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. Ernest Rutherford and Pyotr Kapitsa are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and Recipients of Franklin Medal.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.
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Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.
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Radiometric dating
Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed.
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Radium
Radium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ra and atomic number 88.
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Radon
Radon is a chemical element; it has symbol Rn and atomic number 86.
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Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry
Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry (رفیع محمد چوہدری.) FPAS HI, NI, SI, Skdt (1 July 1903 – 4 December 1988) best known as R. M. Chaudhry, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and a professor of particle physics at the Government College University.
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Ralph H. Fowler
Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist, astronomer and physical chemist.
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Richard Reeves (American writer)
Richard Furman Reeves (November 28, 1936 – March 25, 2020) was an American writer, syndicated columnist, and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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Richard Rhodes
Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).
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Robert Bowie Owens
Robert Bowie Owens (October 29, 1870 – November 3, 1940) was a U.S. electrical engineer. Ernest Rutherford and Robert Bowie Owens are discoverers of chemical elements.
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Robert William Boyle
Robert William Boyle (October 2, 1883 – April 18, 1955) was a physicist and one of the most important early pioneers in the development of sonar. Ernest Rutherford and Robert William Boyle are academics of the Victoria University of Manchester.
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Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, which was held in The Crystal Palace, London.
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Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.
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Royal Society Bakerian Medal
The Bakerian Medal is one of the premier medals of the Royal Society that recognizes exceptional and outstanding science.
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Royal Society Te Apārangi
The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities.
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Rumford Medal
The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by the Royal Society for "outstanding contributions in the field of physics".
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Rutherford (unit)
The rutherford (symbol Rd) is a non-SI unit of radioactive decay.
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Rutherford backscattering spectrometry
Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) is an analytical technique used in materials science.
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Rutherford model
The Rutherford model was devised by Ernest Rutherford to describe an atom.
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Rutherford scattering experiments
The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass is concentrated.
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Rutherfordine
Rutherfordine is a mineral containing almost pure uranyl carbonate (UO2CO3).
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Rutherfordium
Rutherfordium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Rf and atomic number 104.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Sonar
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
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St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui
St Paul's Anglican Church is an heritage-listed Anglican church located in the suburb of Papanui, Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987.
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The Right Honourable
The Right Honourable (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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Thomas Royds
Thomas Royds (April 11, 1884 – May 1, 1955) was a British solar physicist who worked with Ernest Rutherford on the identification of alpha radiation as the nucleus of the helium atom, and who was Director of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, India.
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Thomas Sidey
Sir Thomas Kay Sidey (27 May 1863 – 20 May 1933) was a New Zealand politician from the Otago region, remembered for his successful advocacy of daylight saving time.
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Thorium
Thorium is a chemical element.
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Tom Gaskell
Thomas Frohock Gaskell (January 26, 1916 - 1995), or T. F. Gaskell, was a British oceanographer and geophysicist.
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Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.
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University of New Zealand
The University of New Zealand was New Zealand's sole degree-granting university from 1874 to 1961.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
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Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Wilhelm Exner Medal
The Wilhelm Exner Medal has been awarded by the Austrian Industry Association, (ÖGV), for excellence in research and science since 1921.
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Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
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William Christopher Macdonald
Sir William Christopher Macdonald (10 February 1831 – 9 June 1917) was a Canadian tobacco manufacturer and major education philanthropist in Canada. Ernest Rutherford and William Christopher Macdonald are persons of National Historic Significance (Canada).
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William Crookes
Sir William Crookes (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. Ernest Rutherford and William Crookes are 19th-century British physicists, 20th-century British physicists, discoverers of chemical elements, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, presidents of the Royal Society and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Yulii Khariton
Yulii Borisovich Khariton (27 February 1904 – 18 December 1996) was a Russian physicist who was a leading scientist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
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Zhang Wenyu
Zhang Wenyu (9 January 1910 – 5 November 1992) was a Chinese physicist who served as director of the Institute of High Energy Physics from 1973 to 1984.
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Zinc sulfide
Zinc sulfide (or zinc sulphide) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula of ZnS.
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1851 Research Fellowship
The 1851 Research Fellowship is a scheme conducted by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to annually award a three-year research scholarship to approximately eight "young scientists or engineers of exceptional promise".
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1925 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1925 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire.
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See also
19th-century British physicists
- Adam Anderson (physicist)
- Charles Chree
- Charles Wheatstone
- David Brewster
- Edith Anne Stoney
- Edward Taylor Jones
- Ernest Rutherford
- F. W. Jordan
- Hertha Ayrton
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Prescott Joule
- James Thomson (engineer)
- John Aitken (meteorologist)
- John Dalton
- John Viriamu Jones
- Katherine Clerk Maxwell
- Lord Kelvin
- Michael Faraday
- Oliver Heaviside
- Robert Traill Omond
- Rosina Zornlin
- Tiberius Cavallo
- William Crookes
- William Eccles (physicist)
- William Edward Ayrton
- William Nicol (geologist)
- William Spottiswoode
19th-century New Zealand physicists
- Alexander William Bickerton
- Coleridge Farr
- Ernest Rutherford
Cavendish Professors of Physics
- Brian Pippard
- Cavendish Professor of Physics
- Ernest Rutherford
- J. J. Thomson
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Lawrence Bragg
- Nevill Francis Mott
- Richard Friend
- Sam Edwards (physicist)
- William Henry Bragg
Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
- Émile Picard
- Émile Senart
- Albert Heim
- Alexander Yuzhin
- Ernest Rutherford
- Friedrich Paschen
- Gerard De Geer
- Nikolai Tagantsev
- Paul Émile Appell
- Paul Heinrich von Groth
- Praskovya Uvarova
- Vladimir Korolenko
New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society
- Ainsley Iggo
- Alan MacDiarmid
- Alexander Aitken
- Allan Wilson (biologist)
- Cedric Hassall
- Charles Fleming (ornithologist)
- Chris Hunter (chemist)
- Coleridge Farr
- Dan Walls
- David J. Stevenson
- David Lloyd (botanist)
- Dick Walcott
- Ernest Marsden
- Ernest Rutherford
- Fraser Bergersen
- Fred White (physicist)
- Frederick Hutton (scientist)
- G. H. Cunningham
- Geoff Baylis
- Gerard F. Gilmore
- Graham Liggins
- Guy Dodson
- Ian Axford
- James Hector
- John Holloway (botanist)
- John Mitchell (physicist)
- Julian Jack
- Julius von Haast
- Keith Bullen (mathematician)
- Leonard Cockayne
- Leslie Comrie
- Lew Mander
- Maurice Wilkins
- Michael Kelly (physicist)
- Michael W. Bevan
- Paul Callaghan
- Peter Gluckman
- Peter Whittle (mathematician)
- Richard Barrer
- Richard Matthews (microbiologist)
- Robert Webster (virologist)
- Robin Carrell
- Vaughan Jones
- Walter Buller
- Warren Roper (chemist)
- William Benham (zoologist)
- William Fyfe (geochemist)
- William Hudson (engineer)
New Zealand Nobel laureates
- Alan MacDiarmid
- Ernest Rutherford
- Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand members of the Order of Merit
- Ernest Rutherford
- John Beaglehole
- Ronald Syme
New Zealand nuclear physicists
- Clifford Dalton
- Ernest Marsden
- Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand recipients of a British peerage
- Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt
- Baron Lyveden
- Baron de Villiers
- Basil Arthur
- Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy
- Ernest Rutherford
- Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton
- Robert Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon
People from Brightwater
- Charles Monro (rugby union)
- Ernest Rutherford
- Helen Moulder
- Jack Newman (New Zealand cricketer)
- Lorrie Hunter
- Pauline Engel
Recipients of the Dalton Medal
- Bernard Lovell
- Cyril N. Hinshelwood
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Edward Schunck
- Ernest Rutherford
- Harry Kroto
- Henry Roscoe (chemist)
- J. J. Thomson
- Konstantin Novoselov
- Lawrence Bragg
- Martin Rees
- Osborne Reynolds
- Patrick Blackett
- Roger Penrose
- Walter Bodmer
References
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