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“I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.”

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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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