Online Workshops. Collections Online. Walsh Memorial Library. Collection Offer. Written by Todd Dixon. What better time to look at the achievements of the New Zealand-born father of Nuclear Physics. Dr Leo Hobbis et al. Particle Accelerator [Cockcroft-Walton type], Find us at. Indeed, it could be said that Rutherford invented the very language to describe the theoretical concepts of the atom and the phenomenon of radioactivity.
Particles named and characterized by him include the alpha particle, beta particle and proton. Even the neutron, discovered by James Chadwick, owes its name to Rutherford.
Skip to main content. Ernest Rutherford. Scientific Contributions For more information about Rutherford's scientific contributions, visit the Nobel Prize website.
Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Load more. He worked hard to earn a doctorate in physics in which he received from Copenhagen University.
The next year, , Bohr was working for Nobel laureate, J. Thompson, in England. He was introduced to earnest Rutherford whose discovery of the development of an atomic model and nucleus had given him a Nobel peace prize in chemistry in Rutherford and Planicks theory needed help with their theory and description so Niels Bohr helped explained what happened inside of the atom and developed a picture of atomic structure.
He attended the University of Copenhagen, where he studied physics. In he received his doctorate and left to England to study under J. Thomson, the man who discovered the electron. In he married Margrethe Norlund. Niels Bohr was a major contributor to modern physics. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on the atomic model. Also he came up with a way to furthermore define what a nucleus looks like, and also worked on the Quantum theory.
Post-war he became a major contributor to his Open-World theory of helping Nations intelligence between each other about weapons of mass destruction. His parents, James and Martha, had emigrated from Great Britain and believed their children, numbering 12, should have proper education.
At the age of 16 Ernest won his first scholarship to Nelson College, where he was a popular student. He followed with a second scholarship to Canterbury College in Christchurch, and by had graduated with first class honours in Physics and Mathematics.
Rutherford stayed at Canterbury for a further year to study Physics in more detail, particularly how iron reacted in magnetic fields. In the early s a Japanese scientist named H. Nagaoka designed an atom model as a large sphere surrounded by a ring of negatively charged electrons. Also, during the early s a physicist named Ernest Rutherford worked on experiments to test current atom models.
His experiments involved shooting rays of alpha particles small positively charged particles though very thin pieces of gold foil.
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