For a different take on Rutherford’s discovery, Dacey also met physicist John Schiffer of Argonne National Laboratory, who has been an active nuclear researcher since completing his PhD in 1954.

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He would not personally help chemist Fritz Haber, however, who had been instrumental in creating chemical weapons in World War I. Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All ...