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| − | '''Ernest Rutherford''' | + | '''Ernest Rutherford''' (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a [[Nobel Prize]] winning physicist, who earned fame for the following discoveries: |
| + | * He explained the perplexing problem of radioactivity as the spontaneous disintegration of atoms (they were not necessarily stable entities as had been assumed since the time of the ancient Greeks), | ||
| + | *He determined the structure of the atom and showed that the positive charges of an atom are concentrated in its center. This disproved the [[Plum Pudding]] model of the atom. (See: [[Geiger–Marsden experiment]]) | ||
| + | *He was the first person to successfully split the atom, whilst working in Manchester, UK in 1917.<ref>http://www.rutherford.org.nz/biography.htm</ref> | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutherford, Ernest}} | ||
| + | [[Category:Physicists]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Nobel Laureates in Physics]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:55, January 5, 2018
Ernest Rutherford (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a Nobel Prize winning physicist, who earned fame for the following discoveries:
- He explained the perplexing problem of radioactivity as the spontaneous disintegration of atoms (they were not necessarily stable entities as had been assumed since the time of the ancient Greeks),
- He determined the structure of the atom and showed that the positive charges of an atom are concentrated in its center. This disproved the Plum Pudding model of the atom. (See: Geiger–Marsden experiment)
- He was the first person to successfully split the atom, whilst working in Manchester, UK in 1917.[1]