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the man who split the atom and gave physics its dad energy.
means ernest rutherford was the physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, proving atoms are mostly empty space with a dense core.
from born 1871 in new zealand, he fired alpha particles at gold foil in 1909 expecting them to pass straight through — some bounced back, and he said it was like firing a shell at tissue paper and having it ricochet, which unraveled the entire model of the atom.
nobel prizewon in chemistry, not physics, and hated that
element 104rutherfordium named after him in 1997
student legacymentored 11 future nobel laureates himself
famous quoteall science is either physics or stamp collecting