Discussion»Questions»Science and Technology» An Answermug pal brought up Ernest Rutherford with whom I was not familiar. I am now. Would it have been better had he never been born?
An Answermug pal brought up Ernest Rutherford with whom I was not familiar. I am now. Would it have been better had he never been born?
On 1908 Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for being the first person to split the atom and for his theory of atomic structure. Of course if Rutherford hadn't done it someone else might have.
Rutherford was one if the seminal figures of modern science, a genius, literally the father of nuclear physics.
If you can only conceive that the benefits of nuclear technology are limited to weapons and bombs, where have you been, for, oh, your whole life?
Rutherford’s discoveries have led to advances in practically every field of scientific endeavor, from medicine to geology. What have you done to compare, Rosie, that you should disparage this great man’s existence? Seems more reasonable that it is you we’d have been better off without.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at October 15, 2017 9:50 AM MDT
Had it not been for Rutherford, that cancer you beat would have killed you. There'd have been no CAT scans, MRIs, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine of any kind beyond simple X-rays. The more advanced stuff relies on artificial radioactives. Rutherford's discoveries made them possible.
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