Throughout his life Ernest Rutherford accomplished a multitude of great achievements, some of which include; the discovery of the atomic nucleus, the naming of three radiations, and the discovery of the concept of half-life in radio activity (Campbell 70-105). Mr. Ernest discovered the existence of a nucleus within an atom during his Gold Foil Experiment. After firing a multitude of alpha particles at a thin piece of gold foil he concludes that there is a nucleus, which contains the mass of an atom (Davis, Frey, Sarquis, Sarquis 74-75). He also won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry due to his research on the Chemistry of radioactive substances and the disintegration of elements (Lord Rutherford 1). Rutherford was also Knighted in 1914, named father of nuclear chemistry and Baron Rutherford of Cambridge, and awarded the Rumford and Copley medals (Ernest Rutherford Bibliography 1).