Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Famous New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford was awarded a Nobel Prize in which field?

  1. Chemistry

  2. Physics

  3. Thermodynamics

  4. Mechanical Engeneering
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Ernest Rutherford received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his investigations into the disintegration of elements and chemistry of radioactive substances. While famous for nuclear physics work (like the gold foil experiment establishing the nuclear model of the atom), his Nobel was specifically in Chemistry - a common point of confusion. Physics is the key distractor since Rutherford is primarily remembered as a physicist.

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