Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (b.August 30, 1871, Spring Grove, (now Brightwater), near Nelson, New Zealand - d.October 19, 1937, Cambridge Great Britain. ), was a New Zealand-born British nuclear physicist. He was known as the 'father' of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom, notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment."