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Ernest Rutherford, known all over the world as the greatest scientist of our time, was born in 1871 in the village of Brightwater near the town of Nelson in New Zealand. A man who received all the international prizes and distinctions that a scientist could ever gain, Rutherford began his life in a very modest way. He was the fourth child of a small farmer who had eight more children after him. His father, who was a modest flax grower, could not afford to send his 12 children to school, and Rutherford depended on scholarships from primary school to the university.
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Kapitza, P.L. (1980). The Scientific Work of Rutherford. In: Experiment, Theory, Practice. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8977-1_28
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