John Mitchell Nuttall

John Mitchell Nuttall ( born July 21, 1890 in Todmorden, † 28 January 1958) was an English physicist. It is mainly characterized announced that he has established with Hans Geiger together the Geiger- Nuttall rule for radioactive decay.

Nuttall made ​​a 1911 graduate of the University of Manchester and became an Assistant Lecturer in Physics at the University of Leeds. During World War II he served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers. In 1921, he became Deputy Director ( Assistant Director ) of the physical laboratories of the University of Manchester. The position he held until 1955.

Geiger and Nuttall also made ​​physical experiments that led to his Ernest Rutherford 's atomic model.

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  • Physicist ( 20th century)
  • University teachers (Leeds )
  • Briton
  • Born in 1890
  • Died in 1958
  • Man
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