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Also Known As Lord Rutherford
Born August 30, 1871 • New Zealand
Died October 19, 1937 (aged 66) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1922) • Nobel Prize (1908)
Subjects Of Study Rutherford model • atom • radioactivity

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