# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford's Gold Foil experiment proved Thomson's model was incorrect because when Rutherford conducted the experiment a small fraction of the alpha particles were deflected at large angles

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford's Gold Foil experiment proved Thomson's model was incorrect because when Rutherford conducted the experiment a small fraction of the alpha particles were deflected at large angles

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford was awarded the Rumford Medal (1905) and the Copley Medal (1922) of the Royal Society, the Bressa Prize (1910) of the Turin Academy of Science, the Albert Medal (1928) of the Royal Society of Arts, the Faraday Medal (1930) of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the D.Sc. degree of the University of New Zealand, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, McGill, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Yale, Glasgow, Giessen, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, Oxford, Liverpool, Toronto, Bristol, Cape Town, London and Leeds.

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford was awarded the Rumford Medal (1905) and the Copley Medal (1922) of the Royal Society, the Bressa Prize (1910) of the Turin Academy of Science, the Albert Medal (1928) of the Royal Society of Arts, the Faraday Medal (1930) of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the D.Sc. degree of the University of New Zealand, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, McGill, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Yale, Glasgow, Giessen, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, Oxford, Liverpool, Toronto, Bristol, Cape Town, London and Leeds.

# data[].attributes.headline
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was its President from 1925 to 1930

# data[].attributes.subject
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was its President from 1925 to 1930

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford helped invent the Geiger counter which helps detect and measure ionizing radiation

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford helped invent the Geiger counter which helps detect and measure ionizing radiation

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford liked to play golf and drive around since cars were a relatively new invention

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford liked to play golf and drive around since cars were a relatively new invention

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford wrote the entry on radioactivity for the 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford wrote the entry on radioactivity for the 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford conducted the Gold Foil experiment at the University of Manchester

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford conducted the Gold Foil experiment at the University of Manchester

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford studied at Canterbury College and the University of New Zealand

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford studied at Canterbury College and the University of New Zealand

# data[].attributes.headline
He was buried just west of Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb

# data[].attributes.subject
He was buried just west of Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb

# data[].attributes.headline
Eileen married the physicist R.H. Fowler

# data[].attributes.subject
Eileen married the physicist R.H. Fowler

# data[].attributes.headline
Rutherford entered college at the age of 16

# data[].attributes.subject
Rutherford entered college at the age of 16

# data[].attributes.body
“Ernest Rutherford Biographical.” Nobelprize.org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/biographical/.

“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908.” NobelPrize.org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/facts/.

# data[].attributes.headline
Died: October 19, 1937 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

# data[].attributes.subject
Died: October 19, 1937 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

# data[].attributes.headline
Born: August 30, 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand 

# data[].attributes.subject
Born: August 30, 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand 