Ernest+Rutherford+Hall

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=Biography=

> =Timeline from 1905 to 1915= In 1911 which was during the time the Ernest Rutherford was conducting and writing his theory theses were some of the events going on around the world:
 * Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. Ernest received his early education in Government schools and at the age of 16 entered Nelson Collegiate School. In 1889 he was awarded a University scholarship and he proceeded to the University of New Zealand, Wellington, where he entered Canterbury College. He graduated M.A. in 1893 with a double first in Mathematics and Physical Science and he continued with research work at the College for a short time, receiving the B.Sc. degree the following year. That same year, 1894, he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship, enabling him to go to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory under J.J. Thomson.
 * Rutherford married Mary Newton, only daughter of Arthur and Mary de Renzy Newton, in 1900. Their only child, Eileen, married the physicist R.H. Fowler. Rutherford's chief recreations were golf and motoring.
 * He died in Cambridge on October 19, 1937. His ashes were buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey, just west of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and by that of Lord Kelvin. He remained active and working to the very end of his life
 * Ernest Rutherford conducted his experiments at **Manchester, Lancashire; England, at the Manchester University.**
 * Einstein’s discovery of general relativity
 * Russian Revolution
 * President William Mckinley is assassinated
 * San franciso fire and earthquake -[[image:http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1436716775503&id=7bfdb112f6b673965237dbebcec765dc&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cbc.ca%2fideas%2ffeatures%2fvisions-of-fire%2fimages%2f1906-san-fransisco.jpg width="180" height="160" caption="San Francisco Earthquake of ..."]]
 * William Howard Taft is elected President of the United States
 * The Model T Ford is introduced- [[image:http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1362726558697&id=4122bc0326d0ca1ac430ee04aab8ba1e&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.svvs.org%2fgenpics6%2f1910_Ford_Model_T.jpg width="160" height="108" caption="... : 1910 Ford Model T"]]
 * Orville Wright makes a new flight duration record: 1 hr., 1 min., 40 seconds
 * Pennsylvania Station in New York City opens
 * North Pole reached by Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson (1909)
 * The Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River, AZ, is completed at a cost of $3,890,000
 * The first electric automotive self-starter is demonstrated by Henry Leland, head of the
 * Cadillac division of General Motors
 * **//Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom//**
 * The taxicab makes its appearance on the American scene
 * The first transatlantic radiotelephone communication is made from Arlington, VA to the Eiffel Tower in Paris
 * Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie are assassinated and Austria declares war on Serbia
 * The Panama Canal opens to barge service

=Rutherford's Experiment= Ernest bombarded gold foil with alpha particles, and observed the scattering of these particles, a procedure requiring many hours in a darkened room watching for tiny flashes of light as the scattered particles struck a scintillant screen. =The Equipment used -= The type of equipment used in his theory was GOLD metal foil, screens coated with zinc sulifide, a particle emmiter, and a detection screen. Refer to the image above for the equipment used. For a short video about the atom and how Rutherford added on to everyone else's theoryies follow this website. [] =A Picture of his Theory=

=Main points and errors=
 * Main points -
 * Ernest was the first to figure out there was a small positive dense nucleus
 * Atoms are made of mostly empty space
 * Errors-
 * His model was incomplete
 * He did not know exactly where the electrons were.

=Sources=

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