NYPL RADIUM (5)

By: HILOBROW
June 12, 2024

A series exploring the New York Public Library’s digital collection of radium-related ephemera.


Ernest Rutherford, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. (The discoverer of many important properties of Radium)

From the NYPL’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints an Photographs: Print Collection.

Rutherford (1871–1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. His discoveries include the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and the differentiation and naming of alpha and beta radiation.

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