Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand-born British physicist, is widely considered to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday. Learn more about him through this video! #Unacademy #Education | Unacademy

The University of Canterbury is today celebrating 150 years since the birth of one of its most famous scientists - Ernest Rutherford. Ernest Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances. It’s thanks to the scientific discoveries made by Rutherford and his peers that television, radio, sonar and telephones were invented. Among the treasures that UC holds in its archives are Ruth