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Ernest Rutherford’s radioactivity research at McGill

Ernest Rutherford at McGill University, 1905. Ernest Rutherford 1905 · Unknown, published in 1939 in Rutherford : being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O. M · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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As Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill University from 1898 to 1907, Ernest Rutherford, working with Frederick Soddy, made fundamental discoveries about radioactivity that made McGill an important centre of atomic physics research. He later led laboratories at Manchester and Cambridge and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.

Scope & context

Rutherford’s McGill years as recognized in his designation, not his whole career.

Sources behind this record

Ernest Rutherford National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text