Earnest Rutherford

By mmaxwell626

  • born

    born
    Earnest Rutherford was born to James and Martha Thompson Rutherford in Nelson, New Zealand.

  • president

    president
    Earnest Rutherford becomes the President of the Institution of physics for two years.

  • radioactive

    Rutherford discovers that rays from radioactive materials are of two main types, which he names alpha and beta.

  • wedding

    Earnest Rutherford married the girl of his dreams Mary Newton.

  • partnership

    Rutherford and his partner Soddy see radioactivity as the transformation of atoms and suggests that alpha particles are charged atoms of helium.

  • royal society

    Earnest Rutherford is elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

  • nobel Prize

    Earnest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

  • atoms

    Earnest Rutherford discovers the nuclear sructures of an atom.

  • alchemist

    Rutherford becomes the first succesful alchemist,changing nitrogen into oxygen he splits the atom.

  • nuclei

    Rutherford achieves the first artificial disenigration of nuclei.

  • Death

    Rutherford had died in Cambridge.