Sir Ernest Rutherford

Sir Ernest Rutherford: " cutting edge was Rutherford's work that he had to construct the devices he used to measure atomic activity. By 1903, he published 'Radioactive Change' in a London journal, a paper that opened the field of atomic physics. Rutherford's conclusion that atoms could be transformed and that each atom potentially carried a tremendous amount of energy earned him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908. Soddy would also win a Nobel Prize in 1921. After leaving McGill, Rutherford would go on to other major breakthroughs, including splitting the atom in 1913"