Ernest Rutherford
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The Richt Honourable Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford o Nelson, PC, OM, FRS (30 Augist, 1871–19 October, 1937), wis a New Zealand-born Breetish nuclear pheesicist. He wis kent as the "faither" o nuclear pheesics, pioneered the orbital theory o the atom, in his kenspeckle diskiverie o rutherford scatterin aff the nucleus wi his gowd foil experiment.
Rutherford wis born at Spring Grove, (nou in Brightwater), naur Nelson. He studied at Nelson College an wan a scholarship for studie at Canterbury College, University o New Zealand, wi three degrees an twa year o resairch at the forefront o electrical technology.
