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Born at Sprin Grove.
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Fox Hill School
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Havelock School
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Atended Nelson College
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First reaserch paper published.
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Discoveres rays from radioactive materials are of two main types, which he names ALPHA and BETA.
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Mc Gill University
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Radioactive gas, later named Radon
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Manchester University
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Rutherford- Geiger detector of single ionizing particles.
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Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Announces the nuclear model of the atom.
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Predicts existance of a neutron.
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Dies, ashes buried in Westminister Abbey