Edmund.Jones.atomichistory.fall.2009

D Reich looks like John Dalton. >
 * __Ernest Ruthererford__**
 * Born on August 30, 1871
 * He was a New Zealand chemist and physicistt who became known as the father of nuclear physics.
 * Won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908"for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
 * He is widely credited as splitting the atom in 1917 and leading the first experiment to "split the nucleus"