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His full name is Ernest Baron Rutherford of Nelson.

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Born on August 30, 1871 in Spring Grove, New Zealand.

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Died on October 19, 1937 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire in England.

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Rutherford was the central figure in the study of radioactivity, and with his concept of the nuclear atom he led the exploration of nuclear physics.

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Rutherford attended the free state schools through 1886, when he won a scholarship to attend Nelson Collegiate School, a private secondary school. He excelled in nearly every subject, but especially in mathematics and science.

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With another scholarship in 1890, Rutherford went to Canterbury College in Christchurch, one of the four campuses of the University of New Zealand. It was a small school, with a faculty of eight and fewer than 300 students. Rutherford was fortunate to have excellent professors, who ignited in him a fascination for scientific investigation tempered with the need for solid proof.

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Rutherford received a bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree and won a scholarship for a postgraduate year of study at Canterbury. He completed this at the end of 1893, earning a master of arts (M.A.) degree with first-class honours in physical science, mathematics, and mathematical physics. He was encouraged to remain yet another year in Christchurch to conduct independent research. Rutherford’s investigation of the ability of a high-frequency electrical discharge, such as that from a capacitor, to magnetize iron earned him a bachelor of science (B.S.) degree at the end of 1894.

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Rutherford became the University of Cambridge's first research student went he went to study there to work with J.J. Thomson for his work and knowledge of electromagnetic radiation.

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Besides showing that an oscillatory discharge would magnetize iron, Rutherford determined that a magnetized needle lost some of its magnetization in a magnetic field produced by an alternating current. This made the needle a detector of electromagnetic waves, a phenomenon that had only recently been discovered.

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Rutherford’s apparatus for detecting electromagnetic waves, or radio waves, was simpler and had commercial potential. He spent the next year in the Cavendish Laboratory increasing the range and sensitivity of his device, which could receive signals from half a mile away.

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- Copley Medal (1922)
- Nobel Prize (1908)

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In 1894, Rutherford fell in love with Mary Newton, the daughter of the woman he was boarding with. They got married in 1900. At some point they had a daughter, Eileen Mary Rutherford Fowler.

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https://www.britannica.com/facts/Ernest-Rutherford

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Rutherford

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