“All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.”
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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