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Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
Alyssa Ross
Questions:
- where was Ernest born?
- what was his greatest accomplishment?
- where did he attend school?
- Ernest worked with Hans Geiger, T or F
- What did Ernest name the hydrogen nuclues?
Schooling:
Ernest Rutherford started of his life by completing and earning a degree at the University of New Zealnd and began teaching unruly schoolboys. in the year of 1894 he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition science scholarship enabling him to go to trinity college as a research student at the cavendish laboratory under J.J Thompson.
- 1919, Rutherford had become Cavendish professor at Cambridge, and he rapidly confirmed the artificial transmutation of nitrogen. Alpha particles from polonium were allowed to pass through nitrogen gas; when one struck a nitrogen nucleus, a hydrogen nucleus was ejected, and an oxygen nucleus formed.
Background info.
- Born in New Zealand on a small farm on August 30, 1871
- Died: October 19, 1937
- He was the 4th of the 12th children in his family.
- His father James Rutherford was a scottish wheelwright.
Exploring his work:
Ernest began working with many other scientists such as Hans Geiger, Niels Bohr, H.G.J Mosely, and James Chadwick
- 1912, Niels Bohr, the great Danish scientist, joined Rutherford and put forward the Bohr model of the atom, obtaining general acceptance of the nuclear atom
Discoveries:
Ernest Rutherford was very smart. He is famous for the discovery of alpha/ beta rays and even identified aplha particles as helium nuclei.
The most common thing Ernest is known for would be his greatest accomplishment of postulating the nuclear structure of the atom.
- In 1902 he named the hyrdrogen nuclues a proton
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