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Characters in Rutherford's life
Open-minded and positive, Ernest Rutherford has forged lasting friendships with great names in science.
At the same time, his role in the development of physics at the beginning of the 20th century led him to meet a multitude of other personalities.
You can access each personality by clicking on the photos
(sorted in order of importance)
or by using the "People" menu at the top of the page
(names sorted alphabetically).
Personnes / People
Harriet Brooks (1876-1933)
Martha Rutherford
(1843-1935)
May Rutherford
(1876-1954)
Marie Curie
(1867-1934)
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Bertram Boltwood
(1870-1927)
Frederick Soddy
(1877-1956)
Arthur Stewart Eve
(1862-1948)
Niels Bohr
(1885-1962)
Otto Hahn
(1879-1968)
Eileen Rutherford
(1901-1930)
Lise Meitner
(1878-1968)
Arthur Schuster
(1851-1934)
Hans Geiger
(1882-1945)
Ernest Marsden (1889-1970
James Chadwick
(1891-1974)
William Henry Bragg
(1862-1942)
William Lawrence
Bragg (1890-1971)
Irène Curie
(1897-1956)
Harry Moseley
(1887-1915)
Alice Hopkinson
(1899-1989)
Paul Langevin
(1872-1946)
W. Thomson Lord Kelvin
(1824-1907)
William Ramsay
(1852-1916)
Alexander Bickerton
(1842-1929)
Margaret Ashton
(1856-1937)
Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923)
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Stefan Meyer
(1872-1949)
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Other names will gradually be added to this table.
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