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Hello Ernest Rutherford was the father of nuclear science, the great charismatic figure

who mapped the landscape of the subatomic world.

He identified the atoms

considered part, discovered that elemental decay was the cause of radiation,

and became the first true alchemist in the history of science

when he forced platinum to change into gold.

He was born at the edge of the empire he loved in

1871 the son of Scottish immigrant farmers and he was working in the fields

when a telegram came from the great British physicist JJ Thompson

announcing that he'd won a scholarship to Cambridge.

He went on to founder Sions, winner Nabelle Prize, and pioneer the big signs of the 20th century.

Win Me to discuss the life and legacy of the greatest scientist of Newka Age is Simon Schaffer,

professor in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge,

Jim Alkaleely, senior lecture in physics at the University of Surrey,

and Patricia Farra, fellow of Claire College, Lect

at the University of Surrey, and Patricia Farah, fellow of Claire College, Cambridge.

Simon Schaffer, at the end of the 19th century, what sort of intellectual world did this

obviously brilliant young boy from New Zealand come into when he came across to Cambridge?

What's happening when he arrives in Cambridge at the Cavendish Lab is concerned really with two kinds of physical phenomena and these

concerns were organized by the Lab's then director, J.J. Thompson, Rutherford's patron. One was Dr.

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