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Rutherford - C. P. Snow (1905-1980) provides a portrait of Rutherford (1871-1937), one of the most forceful and colorful of the scientists who work on the modern conception of the atom (p. 591). Rutherford was the greatest experimental scientist since Faraday, and possibly so greater than Faraday (p. 596). If he have never lived, the nucleus of the atom would not have been understood as we now do for about 5 more years (p. 596).