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1. facebook Ernest Rutherford Wall Photos Flair Boxes Ernest Rutherford Logout View photos of Ernest Rutherford (5) Have a séance and send Rutherford a message! Wall Info Photos World Class Discoveries “ YOU ARE AN ALCHEMIST….NOT SURE ABOUT THE NUCLEUS!” Write something… Share Information Networks : Cambridge & London Birthday: August 30, 1871 Political: Tory* Religion: Church of England* Hometown: Spring Grove, New Zealand Neils Bohr In 1908 received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work. In 1898 Rutherford was appointed to the chair of physics at McGill University where he conducted basic research in chemistry. He discovered Radon. In 1919 he took over direction of the Cavendish Laboratory. Won scholarship to study at Cambridge University in England. In 1907 he set up a radiation center at the University of Manchester with Hans Geiger. Frederick Soddy OTHER SCIENTISTS IN HIS ORBIT James Chadwick J.J. Thomson Robert Oppenheimer

2. facebook ERNEST RUTHERFORD Personal Information Wall Photos Flair Boxes Ernest Rutherford Logout View photos of Ernest Rutherford (5) Poke message Wall Info Photos Boxes Basic Information Information Networks : Cambridge & London Birthday: May 29, 1917 Political: Tory* Religion: Church of England* Hometown: Spring Grove, New Zealand Death: October 19, 1937 at age 66 Photos Networks: London and Cambridge Sex: Male Birthday: May 29, 1917 Hometown: Spring Grove, New Zealand (born) Relationship Status: Married to Mary Georgina Newton in 1900 Political Views: Tory* Religious Views: Church of England* Ernest Rutherford died aged 66 on the 19th of October 1937 Childhood: Parents moved to New Zealand from England before he was born. Grew up on a farm. One of 12 children. College: Attended Canterbury College in Christchurch. New Zealand from 1890- 1894. Interests: Going to the local pub for a drink & intellectual conversation Playing with electricity whenever I get the chance. Seeing a live performance of Will Shakespeare! Favorite Music: Beethoven and Wagner. Favorite Books: His first book Radioactivity was published in 1904 and this was one of his favorites. Fun Facts: In 1914 he was knighted. In 1931 he was made the first Baron Rutherford of Nelson Contact Information Have a séance and send Rutherford a message! McGill University, Montreal, Canada 1898-1907 Manchester University, Manchester, England Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England

3. facebook Wall Photos Flair Boxes Ernest Rutherford Logout Wall Info Photos World Class Discoveries Photos of Ernest Rutherford & Peers 3 Photos Ernest Rutherford Rutherford with the German physicist Hans Geiger in Manchester in 1912. Shown is the apparatus used for counting alpha particles. Rutherford discovered the alpha, beta and gamma rays of radiation. In 1907, he began working with Geiger, extending his study of alpha particles. They worked on a radiation detector invented by and named after Geiger, and developed the scintillation screen for observing alpha particles. http://www.ssplprints.com/image.php?id=87284 Rutherford (right) speaking to John Radcliffe in the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1935 http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/Cavendish_Laboratory.html April 14, 1932: Zounds! We've Split the Atomic Nucleus John Cockcroft (left) and Ernest Walton flank their boss, Ernest Rutherford, soon after their successful experiment. Rutherford won his Nobel Prize in 1908; Cockroft and Walton received theirs in 1951. Courtesy Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0414#ixzz16sX5EPIu

4. facebook Ernest Rutherford Wall Photos Flair Boxes Ernest Rutherford Logout View photos of Ernest Rutherford (5) Have a séance and send Rutherford a message! Wall Info Photos World Class Discoveries WORLD CLASS DISCOVERIES RADIOACTIVE DECAY Early on he studied radioactive atoms and determined that two different emissions, named alpha and beta rays, emanate from radioactive atoms. Later he teamed with Frederick Soddy to demonstrate that radioactive elements would spontaneously turn into another atom. They defined the concept of isotopes. Was thought to have uttered “they’ll think we’re alchemists!” GOLD FOIL EXPERIMENT: He bombarded a thin piece of gold foil with positive alpha particles and observed the path of the particles as they either passed through the foil or deflected back from the foil. 1 / 8000 particles bounced back and 7999/8000 passed through. From the deflection he concluded the atom had a small, dense, positive center and from the passing through he concluded the atom was mostly empty space. http://www.asdk12.org/staff/vanarsdale_mark/pages/biology/Chemistry_Images/GoldFoilExperiment.jpg NUCLEAR REACTIONS: “ Radioactive decay had shown that some atoms spontaneously split, but Rutherford "detected the transmutation of one elementary material, nitrogen, into another, oxygen, when the nitrogen atom was bombarded by the natural alpha articles of radium." He used alpha particles to eject protons from materials containing hydrogen when he found the same thing happened in nitrogen (which doesn't contain hydrogen). But more importantly the proton came out at higher energy than it could have received by collision. Effectively Rutherford had "broken up" or split the atom. He was the first to create a “nuclear reaction.” “ http:// www.polymernotes.org/biographies/NZL_bio_rutherford.htm WATCH ME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzALbzTdnc8

5. facebook Ernest Rutherford Wall Photos Flair Boxes Ernest Rutherford Logout View photos of Ernest Rutherford (5) Have a séance and send Rutherford a message! SOURCES Neils Bohr Frederick Soddy James Chadwick J.J. Thomson Robert Oppenheimer Miscellaneous Data and Images: Gold Foil Image: http://www.asdk12.org/staff/vanarsdale_mark/pages/biology/Chemistry_Images/GoldFoilExperiment.jpg Biographical & Personal Information: http://www.rutherford.org.nz/biography.htm Information on Discoveries: http://www.polymernotes.org/biographies/NZL_bio_rutherford.htm Photos: Rutherford (main photo): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bpruth.html JJ Thomson: "J.J. Thomson - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 30 Nov 2010 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html Neils Bohr: http://reich-chemistry.wikispaces.com/422-004+J.Farian+Big+Timeline+Project Soddy: http://images.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1921/soddy_postcard.jpg Chadwick: http://chemistry.bd.psu.edu/jircitano/neutron.html Oppenheimer: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/OppenheimerPhoto.shtml Rutherford & Geiger: http://www.ssplprints.com/image.php?id=87284