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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford. By avesia jones 3 rd block. Biographical.

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Ernest Rutherford

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  1. Ernest Rutherford By avesiajones 3rd block

  2. Biographical Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30,1871 in Nelson New Zealand. Rutherford was the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. Ernest received his education in Government schools and at the age of 16 entered nelson Collegiate school. Rutherford returned to England in 1907 to become Longworth Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester, succeeding Sir Arthur Schuster, and in 1919 he accepted an invitation to succeed Sir Joseph Thomson as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. He also became Chairman of the Advisory Council, H.M. Government, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution, London; and Director of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge.

  3. Conti. Rutherford married Mary Newton, only daughter of Arthur and Mary de Renzy Newton, in 1900. Their only child, Eileen, married the physicist R.H. Fowler. Rutherford's chief recreations were golf and motoring.He died in Cambridge on October 19, 1937. His ashes were buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey, just west of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and by that of Lord Kelvin.

  4. Awards • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) • Knighted (1914) • Ennobled (1931) • In 1889 he was awarded a University scholarship and he proceeded to the University of New Zealand, Wellington, where he entered Canterbury College. He graduated M.A. in 1893 with a double first in Mathematics and Physical Science and he continued with research work at the College for a short time, receiving the B.sc. Degree the following year. • 1894, he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship, enabling him to go to trinity College, Cambridge as a research student at the Cavendish laboratory under J.J. Thomson

  5. What he is Famous for… • Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms have a very dense nucleus, which contains protons. ford eventually coined the terms for some of the most basic principles in the field: alpha, beta, and gamma rays, the proton, the neutron, half-life, and daughter atoms he found that all known radioactive elements emit two kinds of radiation: positively and negatively charged, or alpha and beta. He showed that every radioactive element decreases in radioactivity over a unique and regular time, or half-life, ultimately becoming stable.

  6. The Rutherford gold-foil experiment In 1911 physicist Ernest Rutherford disproved William Thomson’s model of the atom as a uniformly distributed substance. Because a few of the alpha particles in his beam were scattered by large angles after striking the gold foil, Rutherford knew that the gold atom’s mass must be concentrated in a tiny, dense nucleus.

  7. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1908/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1908/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford Web Sites

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