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Ernest Rutherford
Created by
Seth Thomas-DuPont
⟶ Updated 4 Oct 2018 ⟶
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Seth Thomas-DuPont
best thing ever it tells me a lot this should get at lest an A+
4 Oct 2018
Events
Ernest Rutherford born Aug 30th, 1871
awarded a scholarship to attend Nelson Collegiate School
did experiments with high frequency eletrical discharges
Rutherford landed another scholarship to Canterbury College in Christchurch
Had daughter named Eileen
Married Mary Newton
made a simpler visual way of detection radio waves
Left Cambridge and took up a professorship at McGill University in Montreal
introduced theory of radioactivity
transfuses to a professorship at the University of Manchester
found out that the atom is mostly empty space and earns Nobel Prize for Chemistry
figured out how to artificially induce a nuclear reaction in a stable element when working in WWI
he was Knighted
granted the title Baron Rutherford of Nelson
elected president of t he Institute of Physics
Ernest Rutherford died Oct 19th, 1937
