Ernest Rutherford blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Ernest Lord Rutherford (1871 - 1937). Langworthy Professor of Physics, University of Manchester 1907-1919 (in Coupland I Building). pioneer in Nuclear Physics. First to split the atom. Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1908. Recorded plaque organisation: Manchester City Council.

Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering nuclear physicist who first split the atom and received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, fundamentally advancing our understanding of atomic structure.