blue plaque · Manchester
Sir Lord Ernest Rutherford OM PRS FRS

Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) Nobel Laureate led this laboratory 1907 - 1919 herein discovered the nuclear atom, split the atom, and initiated the field of nuclear physics
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