Ernest Rutherford by Benjamin Huffman https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya en-us 2020-11-04 19:27:15 UTC 2020-11-06 03:06:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Born: August 30, 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891519941 2020-11-04 19:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891519941 Died: October 19, 1937 in Cambridge, United Kingdom bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891526437  ]]> 2020-11-04 19:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891526437 Nationality: New Zealander bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891540909  ]]> 2020-11-04 19:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891540909 He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891547673 2020-11-04 19:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/891547673 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 bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896397910  ]]> 2020-11-06 01:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896397910 Rutherford studied at Canterbury College and the University of New Zealand bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896406041 2020-11-06 01:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896406041 Rutherford wrote the entry on radioactivity for the 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896410484 2020-11-06 01:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896410484 Rutherford helped invent the Geiger counter which helps detect and measure ionizing radiation bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896413168  ]]> 2020-11-06 01:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896413168 Rutherford entered college at the age of 16 bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896421169  ]]> 2020-11-06 01:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896421169 Rutherford published several books bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896423926 2020-11-06 01:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896423926 Rutherford was knighted in 1914 bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896424741 2020-11-06 01:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896424741 He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was its President from 1925 to 1930 bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896427928 2020-11-06 01:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896427928 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. bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896429626 2020-11-06 01:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896429626 Rutherford married Mary Newton bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896434402 2020-11-06 01:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896434402 He only had 1 child named Eileen bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896436158 2020-11-06 01:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896436158 Rutherford liked to play golf and drive around since cars were a relatively new invention bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896438551 2020-11-06 01:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896438551 He was buried just west of Sir Isaac Newton’s tomb bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896442085 2020-11-06 01:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896442085 Eileen married the physicist R.H. Fowler bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896444272 2020-11-06 01:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896444272 He died from a strangulated hernia bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896447828 2020-11-06 01:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896447828 Rutherford conducted the Gold Foil experiment at the University of Manchester bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896451182 2020-11-06 01:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896451182 Citations: bhuffman23 https://padlet.com/bhuffman23/dd6f6za022mk8mya/wish/896457305 “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/. 





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