Ernest Rutherford was an eminent scientist in chemistry.He earned Nobel prize in chemistry for the investigation of the disintegration of element and also for the chemistry of radioactive element.

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3.  Born : AUGUST 1871, NEW ZEALAND
 Father : JAMES RUTHERFORD
 Mother : MARTHA THOMPSON
 Residence : NEW ZEALAND, UK
 Citizenship: NEW ZEALAND, UK

4.  Nationality : BRITISH
 Fields : PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY
 Institutions : MCGILL UNIVERSITY
 Known for : FATHER OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
: RUTHERFORD MODEL
: DISCOVERY OF PROTON
: RUTHERFORD(unit)
 Died :19 OCTOBER 1937 (aged 66)

5.  Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand - born British
physicist who became known as the father of
Nuclear physics.
 He discovered the concept of radioactive half -life,
proved that radioactivity involved the
transmutation of one chemical element to another
 He differentiated it and named alpha and beta
radiation.
 The work was done at Mc Gill University in Canada.
 It is the basis for the Nobel Prize in chemistry he
was awarded in1908 for his investigation in to the
disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry
of radioactive substance

6.  Rutherford performed his most famous work after he became
a Nobel laureate. I

7.  EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
 Ernest Rutherford was the son of James Rutherford, a
farmer, and his wife Martha Thompson, originally from
England.
 Ernest was born at Brightwater, near Nelson, New
Zealand. His first name was mistakenly spelled ‘Earnest’
when his birth was registered.
 He studied at Havelock school, and then Nelson college
and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury college,
University of New Zealand.

8.  After gaining his BA, MA and B.Sc., and doing two years of
research during which he invented a new form of radio
receiver
 In 1900, he could marry Georgia Newton, to whom he had
become engaged before leaving New Zealand; they had
one daughter, Eileen Marry.
 In 1900 he gained a DSC from the University of New
Zealand.
 In 1907 Rutherford returned to Britain to take the chair of
Physics at the University of Manchester.
 Rutherford became Director of Cavendish Laboratory at
the University of Cambridge in 1919.

9. 1.He worked jointly with Thomson on the behaviour of the ions observed in
gas, and also, in 1897, on the mobility of ions in relation to strength of the electric
field, and on the related topics such as the photoelectric effect.
In 18 98 he reported the existence of alpha and beta rays in uranium radiation and
indicated some of their properties.
2. Element rutherfordium Rf Z =104
3. The Rutherford (Rd), the absolute unit of radioactivity equivalent to one
megabecquerel.
4. The chemical element rutherfordium (element 104) was named after him
in 1977.

10. RUTHERFORD (1817-1937)

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