It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand physicist and chemist and a pioneering researcher in atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday." In 1908 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
His discoveries include the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and the distinction and naming of alpha and beta radiation. With Thomas Royds he showed that alpha radiation is composed of helium nuclei. In 1911 he proposed that an atom's charge is concentrated in a very small nucleus, a theory he reached by interpreting the results of the gold foil experiment performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden.
His discoveries include the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and the distinction and naming of alpha and beta radiation. With Thomas Royds he showed that alpha radiation is composed of helium nuclei. In 1911 he proposed that an atom's charge is concentrated in a very small nucleus, a theory he reached by interpreting the results of the gold foil experiment performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden.
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.
Now I know what the atom looks like.
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical theorist builds up on certain assumptions and according to well understood logical rules, step by step, a stately edifice, while his imaginative power brings out clearly the hidden relations between its parts. A well constructed theory is in some respects undoubtedly an artistic production. A fine example is the famous Kinetic Theory of Maxwell. ... The theory of relativity by Einstein, quite apart from any question of its validity, cannot but be regarded as a magnificent work of art.