ATOMIC MODEL

EARNEST RUTHERFORD

Chris Craddieth

Richard Gore

Markayla Duck

Chemistry Second Block

September 30, 2015

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Scientist Earnest Rutherford was born on July 30, 1871 in Spring Grove in rural Nelson

POPULAR IDEA

• The popular idea of an atom was that it was a big sphere of a positive charge and little dots called electrons to make the atom neutral. (neutrons)

PICTURE OF RUTHERFORD’S MODEL

COMPARISON OF MODELS

JJ Thompson’s model was just a big positive charge with little negative charges

Rutherford’s model has little positive and negative charges to make the nucleus and there is electrons on the outside