Ernest Rutherford

ABout ernest

• August 30, 1871
• Nelson, New Zealand
• Early education from gov.
• 16 - entered into Nelson Collegiate School
• Scholarship & went to U of New Zealand

College career

• 1893, Graduated w/ double first in math & Physical Science
• Later graduated with a bachelor's associates
• Awards made it able for him to travel to other schools

First researches

• Concerned w/ magnetic properties 
• Measuring time intervals by 100-1000 of sec
• Detector of electromagnetic waves

Discovery

• 1910 - investigation of alpha rays & atom
• Led to concept of nucleus
• 1919, nuclei of certain light elements could be disintegrated
• Used an experiment w/ plum pudding model & bullet

Contribution

• Scattering of alpha rays & structure of 
•   an atom led to his concept of nucleus
• He believed whole mass & positive charge of the atom
•   concentrated in a minute space at the center

Accomplishments

• Knighted in 1914 & received many honors
• - such as Rumford medal, the Coplet Medal
•   of Royal Society, Bressa Prize, Albert Medal
•   Faraday Medal & many honorary doctorates
•   from 20 diff university

Works Cited

• http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1908/rutherford-...
• http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/meis/Rutherford.htm