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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
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Harriet Brooks (1876-1933)

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Martha Rutherford

 (1843-1935)

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May Rutherford

 (1876-1954)

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Marie Curie 

(1867-1934)

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Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)

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Bertram Boltwood

(1870-1927)

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Frederick Soddy

(1877-1956)

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Arthur Stewart Eve  

(1862-1948)

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Niels Bohr

 (1885-1962)

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Eileen Rutherford

 (1901-1930)

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Otto Hahn 

(1879-1968)

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W. Thomson Lord Kelvin 

(1824-1907)

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Arthur Schuster

(1851-1934)

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Hans Geiger 

(1882-1945)

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Ernest Marsden (1889-1970

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William Henry Bragg 

(1862-1942)

William Lawrence 

Bragg (1890-1971)

Alice Hopkinson in the 1910s

Alice Hopkinson 

(1899-1989)

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Lise Meitner

(1878-1968)

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Harry Moseley 

(1887-1915)

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Alexander Bickerton 

(1842-1929)

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Albert Einstein

 (1879-1955)

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Paul Langevin 

(1872-1946)

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William Ramsay 
(1852-1916)

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Margaret Ashton 

(1856-1937)

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Hertha Ayrton 

(1854-1923)

Staff and research students at Mancheste

Other names will gradually be added to this table.

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