Ernest Rutherford achieved much in his life time in physics and beyond.  In 1908 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his “disintegration theory” of atoms, showing that such disintegration was on the atomic level, not on the molecular level.  He was also added to the Order of Merit in 1925.  Rutherford also influenced many physicist who worked under him at the Cavendish laboratory at the University of Cambridge.  Some of them went on the win Nobel prizes, such James Chadwick for his discovery of the neutron, Patrick Blackett for his investigation of cosmic rays, and Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton “for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.”