Rutherford, Ernest research contributions

In 1914 Soddy assumed the chair of chemistry at Aberdeen University, Scotland, but his teaching and research were largely interrupted by World War I. In 1919 he was appointed to the Lee Chair of Chemistry at Oxford University, a post he held until his retirement in 1937. In 1921 Soddy received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes. He died in Brighton, England, on September 22, 1956. SEE ALSO Ramsay, William Rutherford, Ernest. 

Ernest Rutherford, Frederick Soddy, and then Sir William Ramsay documented natural transformations of one element into another in 1902 and 1903. The artificial transmutation of one element into another, however, was first accomplished in 1919 by Rutherford, a physicist. Indeed, the field of nuclear physics has contributed the most to our understanding of the subatomic world since the 1920s. But the scientists who most advocated transmutation as a goal of research and a heuristic principle for understanding the nature of matter—the Nobel Prize winners Ramsay and Soddy, and, in a less prominent way, Sir William Crookes—were chemists, not physicists.1... 

Following Einsteins work, other scientists would make their own contributions to fission research. In 1910 the New Zealand-born British scientist Ernest Rutherford found that atoms ate composed of nuclei, and in 1920 he suggested that nuclei ate composed of neutrons—par-tides that hold no electrical charge. Lacking an electrical charge, Rutherford suggested, neutrons could pass from nudeus to nudeus unrestrained by the electrical forces found in atoms. 

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