President of the Royal Society
In office
1925–1930
Preceded by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Succeeded by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Personal details
Born 30 August 1871
Brightwater, Tasman District, New Zealand
Died 19 October 1937 (aged 66)
Cambridge, England, UK
Citizenship British subject
Nationality New Zealander
Residence New Zealand, United Kingdom
Signature
Alma mater Canterbury College, University of New Zealand
University of Cambridge
Known for
Discovery of alpha and beta radioactivity
Discovery of atomic nucleus (Rutherford model)
Rutherford scattering
Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy
Discovery of proton
Rutherford (unit)
Coining the term 'artificial disintegration'
Awards
Rumford Medal (1904)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908)
Barnard Medal (1910)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1910)
Matteucci Medal (1913)
Copley Medal (1922)
Franklin Medal (1924)
Albert Medal (1928)
Faraday Medal (1930)
Wilhelm Exner Medal (1936)
Faraday Lectureship Prize (1936)
Scientific career
Fields Physics and Chemistry
Institutions McGill University
University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Academic advisors Alexander Bickerton
J. J. Thomson[citation needed]
Doctoral students
Nazir Ahmed
Norman Alexander
Edward Victor Appleton
Robert William Boyle
James Chadwick
Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry
Norman Feather
Daulat Singh Kothari
Alexander MacAulay
Cecil Powell
Henry DeWolf Smyth
Ernest Walton
Evan James Williams
C. E. Wynn-Williams
Yulii Borisovich Khariton
Other notable students
Edward Andrade
Edward Victor Appleton
Patrick Blackett
Niels Bohr
Bertram Boltwood
Harriet Brooks
Teddy Bullard
John Cockcroft
Charles Galton Darwin
Charles Drummond Ellis
Kazimierz Fajans
Hans Geiger
Otto Hahn
Douglas Hartree
Pyotr Kapitsa
George Laurence
Iven Mackay
Ernest Marsden
Mark Oliphant
Thomas Royds
Frederick Soddy
Influenced Henry Moseley
Hans Geiger
Albert Beaumont Wood
