Ernest Rutherford

Standard Name: Rutherford, Ernest

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Textual Features	Mona Caird	This final novel, remarkable as an early treatment of the impact of radiation on human life and of the rise of Nazism in Germany, differs from MC 's earlier ones in being pessimistic about...
Textual Production	Amabel Williams-Ellis	One of her Spectator projects was an unsuccessful attempt to increase its coverage of developing scientific issues, such as the work of Einstein , Ernest Rutherford , and Niels Bohr . Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 69-70 Despite this failure...

Timeline

10 December 1908

Lord Ernest Rutherford 's work on radioactive substances earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1928

The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device which detects and measures radioactivity, was produced in a form close to that still in use by Hans Geiger and Walther Müller at the University of Kiel in...

1933

In London, politician William Beveridge and scientist Ernest Rutherford founded the Academic Assistance Council , to help mostly German writers and intellectuals menaced by the Nazis .

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