“Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.”
Quote by Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, a British physicist, is renowned as the founder of nuclear physics. Born on August 30, 1871, in New Zealand, he passed away on October 19, 1937, in the United Kingdom. Rutherford made significant breakthroughs in the study of radioactivity, proposed the nuclear model of the atom, and discovered the proton. more
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Source: A New System of Chemical Philosophy...