Question

Who is known as the father of nuclear physics?
A. Ernest Rutherford
B. Dalton
C. J.J Thomson
D. E. Goldstein

Answer 1

Hint: In the given question firstly we have to define who exactly was the galvanic cell and then we can give the proper definition of who he is and what work he did that bought him the recognition. That was the work of differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.

Complete step by step answer:
Ernest Rutherford who was also the 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.
In his early work, Rutherford made the discovery of the concept of the radioactive half-life. The main radioactive element in the study was radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation. With the help of this work which was performed at the McGill University in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada he went for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and was also awarded in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances",for which he was the first Canadian and Oceanian Nobel laureate.
The correct answer for the given question would be Ernest Rutherford.
Therefore we can say that the answer would be option A, Ernest Rutherford.

So, the correct answer is Option A.

Note: Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1919. Under his leadership the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932 and in the same year the first experiment to split the nucleus in a fully controlled manner.