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Portrait photograph of Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand's greatest scientist.
Rutherford's discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Einstein referred to him as the 'second Newton' who ‘tunneled into the very material of God’.
Ernest Rutherford features in The A to Z of New Zealand stamp series produced by New Zealand Post in 2008.
Ernest Rutherford's discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Einstein called him  a 'second Newton' who had ‘tunneled into the very material of God'.