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“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.”

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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