McGill’s Ernest Rutherford awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the concept of the atomic half-life and the element radon
In 1908, McGill professor Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.”
Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist, was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Rutherford has been described as “the father of nuclear physics.”
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