Ernest Rutherford

  • Born date

  • He won a scholarship

    To Cambridge University
  • First research student

    At university of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in London
  • Discovered two types of rays

  • Discovered a radioactive gas

  • Won a nobel prize

    In transmulation of elements and the work of radioactive material
  • Became a professor of experimental physics

  • Discovered Protons

  • Died

  • Named in his honour

    A unit of radioactivity (ruftherford)