"I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist."
— Ernest Rutherford

January 1, 1970

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On his 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry, as quoted in Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics (2004) by Mauro Dardo, p. 69