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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford. Presented by: Kevin Heid Damian Lee Austin Santiago Steven Jonas. When it all started. Born on August 30 th 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand. Both of his brothers drowned when he was only 10 years old. He died at the age of 66, in 1937. Mid-life.

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Ernest Rutherford

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  1. Ernest Rutherford Presented by: Kevin Heid Damian Lee Austin Santiago Steven Jonas

  2. When it all started • Born on August 30th 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand. • Both of his brothers drowned when he was only 10 years old. • He died at the age of 66, in 1937.

  3. Mid-life • He attended school Nelson and Marlborough, and finished education in Canterbury, New Zealand. • Studied Mathematics, Latin, English French, Physics. • Studied at University of New Zealand, and Canterbury College. • He received his masters of arts degree in mathematics, mathematical physics, and in physical science.

  4. Discovery • He discovered in 1919 that an atom had a nucleus and electrons were floating around it. • In 1917 Rutherford had made his first observation of nuclear reaction. • He discovered “half-life” by the decay of radio active material.

  5. Experimental Procedure In 1911, Rutherford deduced from these results that almost all of the mass of an atom, an object so small that it would take over five million of them side-by-side to cross a full stop on this page, is concentrated in a nucleus a thousand times smaller than the atom itself. (If the orbital electrons in our atoms were compressed into the nucleus we would occupy the space of a small grain of sand.)

  6. Achievements • He was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.

  7. Interesting Facts • During college, his nickname was “Quacks” by being the head of the rugby team. • Ernest Rutherford is considered the father of nuclear physics. • When Rutherford studied at Cambridge, he worked under J.J. Thomson. • His students were Ernest Marsden.

  8. http://www.unit5.org/christjs/Ernest_Rutheford.htm • http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Rutherford.html • http://www.rutherford.org.nz • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford • http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1908/rutherford-bio.html Work cited

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