Raised to the peerage in 1931, he became Ernest Lord Rutherford, first Baron Rutherford of Nelson (Ern, for short). The "arched" curves dividing the field of his shield are meant to be exponential curves (a reference to the decay of radioactive nuclei which is also featured on the above...
In 1931 he was made Lord Rutherford, Baron of Nelson. Almost all of the milestone events in the early history of nuclear physics—the identification of radioactivity as a nuclear phenomenon, the proof that αparticles are identical to helium ions, the nuclear model of the atom, and the first...
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