Ernest+Rutherford

__**Personal Life**__

-Born in Brightwater, New Zealand in 1871. -Died in Cambridge, England in 1937. -Furthered his education at Nelson College, then Cantebury College, and then Cambridge.

__**His Work**__ **__His Experiments__**
 * He studied radioactivity and its affects.
 * He also concieved the notion of a nuclear atom, later leading to the study of nuclear physics.
 * He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908.
 * He discovered an isotope for the noble gas radon.
 * He invented an electromagnetic wave detector.
 * An electromagnetic wave detector would pick up electromagnetic signals
 * In 1893, Rutherford developed a timing device that was able to switch circuits in less than one hundred thousanth of a second.
 * He taught Niels Bohr who would later design the Bohr Diagram, as well as Sir Mark Oliphant, who played a major role in the Manhatten Project, thus making Rutherford instrumental to the creation of the atomic bomb.
 * "He discovered alpha and beta rays, set forth the laws of radioactive decay, and identified alpha particles as helium nuclei. Most important, he postulated the nuclear structure of the atom: experiments done in Rutherford's laboratory showed that when alpha particles are fired into gas atoms, a few are violently deflected, which implies a dense, positively charged central region containing most of the atomic mass."- As quoted from [|http://www.chemheritage.org]
 * Rutherford later explained these results as being, "Almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paer and it came back and hit you."