ERNEST RUTHERFORD

STATS

• Nationality: British, Scottish, & New Zealander
• Born: August 30th, 1871 in Brightwater, NZ
• Died: October 19th. 1937 (66 yrs.) in Cambridge, Britain, UK
• Research Focus: Nuclear Physics

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

THE NUCLEUS

• Shot Alpha Particles at a thin gold sheet
• Some particles were deflected
• Only deflected in center, negative charges would not deflect

SPLITTING THE ATOM

• As a result of bombarding the nucleus with alpha particles
• Protons are forced from the nucleus by the particles

RUTHERFORD MODEL

• Falsified the Plum Pudding model
• Shows that electrons orbit a central nucleus

RUTHERFORD (UNIT) [rd]

• Unit of radioactivity
• The Activity of a Quantity of Radioactive Material
• In which one million nuclei decay per second
• Equivelent to one megabecqurel

SOURCES

• http://famousphysicists.org/ernest-rutherford/
• images.google.com