Ernest Rutherford Biography

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist
Born asBrightwater, New Zealand
Known as1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Occup.Psychologist
FromNew Zealand
BornAugust 30, 1871
DiedOctober 19, 1937
Cambridge, England
Aged66 years
Ernest Rutherford is understood for having launched a new atomic design with a main center and the electrons that orbit around it. The design was based upon the gold aluminum foil experiment performed by his close associates Ernest Marsden as well as Hans Geiger in 1911. In 1919 he found that the center has favorably charged protons. He developed Rutherford's atomic model. He was granted the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.

He involved Britain in 1895 for advanced studies at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. After his studies he entered 1898 to McGill University in Montreal, Canada (the "Chair of physics"). It was here that he did job that brought about the Nobel Prize. In 1907 he returned to Britain and also a similar placement at the University of Manchester. In 1917 he was back at the Cavendish Laboratory Director. In his office here, it was granted several Nobel rewards to staff members: Chadwick for having discovered the neutron, Cockcroft and Walter of nuclear fission with fragment accelerator as well as Appleton for the detection of the ionosphere.

Ernest originated from New Zealand in 1911 and did an experiment where he found that Thomson's atomic design might not vote. The experiment was to shoot some positively billed bits at a slim gold foil. They had great speed. Rutherford assumed that all the bits would go straight with the gold atoms, much like bullets we fire through the paper. He was very amazed when some of the tiny particles were significantly deflected as well as some recovered. He needed to produce a new design of the atom. He understood that there can be such that the mass of the atom is equally dispersed throughout the atom. He believed that most of the atom is empty space, however it has a little thick center with favorable cost. The electron, which has adverse fee, walks around this positive center. Later he located that the nucleus includes fragments. The bits that Rutherford found, has a positive charge and also are called protons. We can not see atoms directly, as well as we are as a result based on various other techniques to produce a model of atoms. Since Rutherford located a way to develop a sort of picture of just how it looks inside the atom, the experiment was his fame. He uncovered the neutron. Along with receiving the Nobel Prize in chemistry, he also made a Knight in 1914.

Our collection contains 4 quotes who is written / told by Ernest.

Related authors: Niels Bohr (Physicist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

4 Famous quotes by Ernest Rutherford

Small: All science is either physics or stamp collecting
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"
Small: If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment
"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment"
Small: Of all created comforts, God is the lender you are the borrower, not the owner
"Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner"
Small: You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1
"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1"