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Which New Zealand physicist, born in Brightwater, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and is the only New Zealander to have an element named after him?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford — Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, discovered the atomic nucleus and the proton, and rutherfordium (element 104) was named in his honour.
- A Maurice Wilkins
- B Alan MacDiarmid
- C Ernest Rutherford ✓
- D William Pickering
Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, discovered the atomic nucleus and the proton, and rutherfordium (element 104) was named in his honour.