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Ernest Rutherford Accomplishments

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Ernest Rutherford managed to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was one of the few laureates in history that managed to win the award alone, not sharing it with another laureate nominee. Ernest Rutherford was presented with the Nobel prize in chemistry in the year of 1908. He ultimately won the prize for his investigations into the disintegration of elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances. Others had won the nobel for chemistry like Michael Levitt, Eric betzig, and Stefan Hell. But none of those winners had as much of a significant impact on the science world like Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford's issue was explaining the perplexing problem at the time of radioactivity of the spontaneous disintegration of atoms. One of his main

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