1911+Rutherford

By James Young The person I will be sharing information about is Ernest Rutherford. Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) was a New Zealand chemist who later became the known as Father of Nuclear Physics. He was a scholar for all of his life; he didn’t hold any jobs not related to nucealur physics. He studied Physics and Electrical Technology. He also contributed the Rutherford model (which later evolved into the Bohr model) of the atom which portrays the atom as a small positively charged nucleuses orbited by electrons. He discovered this through the Rutherford scattering with the gold foil experiment. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1908. His discovery was proven correct in 1932 by James Chadwick. According to any info I could find his ideas were accepted at the time. Many items bear Rutherford’s name in honor of all he did in his life and work; the element rutherfordium, a hand full of college’s buildings and schools. Not to mention a crater on the moon and a image on the New Zealand dollar bill. [] []
 * Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) **