what was his profession?
Physicist
Ernest Rutherford
physicist
who came up with the theory of continuous matter Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers Leucippus and his pupil Democritus what is atomic theory? It is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. who discovered the nucleus? Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford [SEP] Introduction
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand–born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. "Encyclopædia Britannica" considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867). In early work, Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation. This work was performed at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the basis for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he was awarded in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances", for which he was the first Canadian and Oceanian Nobel laureate.