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    Ernest Marsden

    British physicist (1889–1970)

    Sir Ernest MarsdenCMG CBE MC FRS (19 February 1889 – 15 December 1970) was an English-New Zealand physicist.

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    • He is recognised internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom. In Marsden's later work in New Zealand, he became a significant member of the scientific community, while maintaining close links to the United Kingdom.

    Education

    Born in Manchester, the son of Thomas Marsden and Phoebe Holden, Marsden lived in Rishton and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where an inter-house trophy rewarding academic excellence ('The Marsden Merit Trophy') bears his name.[2]

    In 1909, as a 20-year-old student at the University of Manchester, he met and began work under Ernest Rutherford.[3] While still an undergraduate he conducted the famous Geiger–Marsden experiment, also ca