Ernest Rutherford
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mise à jour avec succès: 4 oct. 2018
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Ernest Rutherford
born Aug 30th, 1871awarded a scholarship to
attend Nelson Collegiate Schooldid experiments with high
frequency eletrical dischargesRutherford landed another scholarship
to Canterbury College in ChristchurchHad daughter named EileenMarried Mary Newtonmade a simpler
visual way of detection
radio wavesLeft Cambridge and took
up a professorship at
McGill University in Montrealintroduced theory of radioactivitytransfuses to a
professorship at the
University of Manchesterfound out that the atom
is mostly empty space
and earns Nobel Prize
for Chemistryfigured out how to
artificially induce a
nuclear reaction in
a stable element
when working in WWIhe was Knightedgranted the title Baron
Rutherford of Nelsonelected president of t
he Institute of PhysicsErnest Rutherford
died Oct 19th, 1937
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