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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)
Frederick Soddy
(1877-1956)
Bertram Boltwood
(1870-1927)
Arthur Stewart Eve
(1862-1948)
Niels Bohr
(1885-1962)
Otto Hahn
(1879-1968)
Arthur Schuster
(1851-1934)
Hans Geiger
(1882-1945)
Ernest Marsden (1889-1970)
Eileen Rutherford
(1901-1930)
Lise Meitner
(1878-1968)
James Chadwick
(1891-1974)
William Henry Bragg
(1862-1942)
William Lawrence
Bragg (1890-1971)
Paul Langevin
(1872-1946)
Ralph Fowler
(1889-1944)
Irène Curie
(1897-1956)
Harry Moseley
(1887-1915)
W. Thomson Lord Kelvin
(1824-1907)
Piotr Kapitsa
(1894-1984)
Alexander Bickerton
(1842-1929)
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Stefan Meyer
(1872-1949)
William Ramsay
(1852-1916)
Alice Hopkinson
(1899-1989)
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Margaret Ashton
(1856-1937)
Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923)
Other names will gradually be added to this table.
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