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Earnest Rutherford

Earnest Rutherford . By: Kass , Chris, and Taylor. History of Rutherford. Earnest Rutherford was born August 30 th 1871 in New Zealand to James and Martha Rutherford. Rutherford is the fourth child out of 12. At the age of 10 Rutherford received his first science book from Foxhill school.

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Earnest Rutherford

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  1. Earnest Rutherford By: Kass, Chris, and Taylor

  2. History of Rutherford • Earnest Rutherford was born August 30th 1871 in New Zealand to James and Martha Rutherford. Rutherford is the fourth child out of 12. • At the age of 10 Rutherford received his first science book from Foxhill school. • In 1887 Rutherford won the only scholarship to Nelson College. He attended the college for three years.

  3. Experiment • In 1903 Earnest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden launched a beam of alpha particles (uranium beam) at a sheet of gold foil. The alpha particle are highly positive charged and the experiment showed large deflections for a small fraction of incident particles. This led Rutherford to propose the atom was nuclear.

  4. Diagram

  5. Contributions • Rutherford's discovery of disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances made it possible for other scientists to come up with there experiments.

  6. resources • http://www.rutherford.org.nz/biography.htm • http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Rutherford.html • http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/timeline/pages/1911.html • http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Ru-Sp/Rutherford-Ernest.html

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