Interesting Facts

2. He was born with an umbilical hernia.

3. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics, the Hector Memorial Medal, and the Order of Merit. He also got an Exhibition Science Scholarship.

4. Our group thought it was very interesting that Ernest Rutherford was the first person to split an atom because, when some people think of a splitting atom, they think of an atomic bomb or an explosion.

1. The element 'rutherfordium' was named in his honor.

5. Ernest Rutherford worked on the practical problems of submarine detection during the First World War.