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The rutherford, a unit of radioactivity, was named in Rutherford's honor. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1903. He served as president of the Royal Society from 1925 to 1930. He was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was knighted in 1914. He was made a baron in 1931. He was honored after his death in 1937 by being buried in Westminster Abbey. Chemical element 104 was named rutherfordium (Rf) in his honor in 1997.

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