Question

British scientist Lord Ernest Rutherford won a Nobel Prize in 1908. In which field of science did he work?

Answer 1

Rutherford and Soddy demonstrated that radioactivity involved the spontaneous disintegration of atoms into other, as yet, unidentified matter. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 was awarded to Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".