English & Literature Who is Ernest Rutherford from One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science and what is their importance? Asked by bookragstutor 13 years ago 10/25/2012 12:59 PM Last updated by anonymous 12 years ago 4/2/2013 10:56 PM
Physicist Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear physics. He demonstrated that the positive charge of the atom and most of its mass was located in an extremely small nucleus in the center of the atom.