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Ernest Rutherford is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in nuclear physics, particularly his discovery of the nucleus in the atom through the gold foil experiment, which revealed the atom's structure. He also identified the concept of radioactive decay and classified radiation into alpha and beta particles. Rutherford's work laid the foundation for the development of atomic models and earned him the title "father of nuclear physics." Additionally, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his investigations of the disintegration of elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.

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