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Ernest Rutherford blue plaque

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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.

From the Open Plaques record 733

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