ERNEST RUTHERFORD !1

Ernest Rutherford,s parents were James and Martha. Ernest was fourth of twelve children.In 1876 the Rutherford family moved to Fox hill. Rutherford went to canterbury college and then to Canterbury university from 1890-1894.Graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1892, and then with master of arts in mathematics, mathematical physics and physical science the following year. ( At university he was known for a keen rugby player) After graduating, he taught for a few weeks at Christchurch boys but was not a successful teacher.Ernest Rutherford left New Zealand in 1895 to study at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, as a research student. He adapted a device he had developed back in New Zealand, using it to detect electro-magnetic waves, and in 1896 succeeded in detecting waves over several hundred meters. In 1898 Rutherford took up the post of Professor of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, but returned to New Zealand briefly in 1900 to marry Mary Newton, the daughter of his Christchurch landlady. Their only child, Eileen, was born in 1901.

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THE FIELD THAT ERNEST RUTHERFORD WAS IN WAS THE PHYSICIST-CHEMISTRY

PHYSICIST-CHEMISTRY IS THE STUDY OF MACROSCOPIC, ATOMIC AND SUBTOMIC IN

CHEMICAL SYSTEMS .

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ERNEST RUTHERFORD WAS KNOWN FOR ... FATHER OF NUCLEAR PHSICS

RUTHERFORD MODEL RUTHERFORD SCATTERING

RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY

DISCOVERY OF PROTON COINING THE TERM ARTIFICIAL

DISINTERGRATION

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ERNEST RUTHERFORD was born on the 30th of August 1871

in New Zealand

he then died on the 19th of October 1937 at the age of 66

in Cambridge England

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awards he won Nobel prize in chemistry

in 1908 Rumford medal

in 1905 Elliott cresson medal

in 1910 Matteucci medal

in 1922 franklin medal

in 1924

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he got famous for the spliting of the atom, which lead the first atom bombs. These two bombs

"fat man" and "little boy" where dropped on Japan in World War2.

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By Sean McGrath !10