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Rutherford’s legacy

05 Jun 2019
Taken from the June 2019 issue of Physics World.

With the International Year of the Periodic Table of Elements in full swing, John Campbell celebrates the immense contribution of Ernest Rutherford, who first split the atom 100 years ago

(Rice/University of Manchester) “You proved that atoms have balls.” So went a letter by a group

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John Campbell is a physicist at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the author of Rutherford Scientist Supreme and producer of the documentary film Rutherford, e-mail john.campbell@canterbury.ac.nz
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