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Events on Tuesday 19 October 1937 2
1937Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)Died 19 October 1937, aged 66New Zealand-born physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus and first split the atom. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and led the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
1937 – 2026Peter MaxPop artist, 1937-2026 - the look of the psychedelic sixtiesGerman-American artist whose saturated colours and star fields became the visual shorthand for the 1960s counterculture.