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Ernest was born in Bright Warer, New Zeland.
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He also went to the Trinity College, Cambridge
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He also went to the Trinity College in Cambridge, and the University of Cambridge.
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WHen Ernest was 10 he was given his first science book, which was a minitaure cannon that to his family's surprise blew up in their living room.
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In 1983 he was already gruduated fron Canterbury College of the University of New Zeland.
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In 1887 Ernest accepted a scholorship to Nelson Collegiate School
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Ernest accepted the scholorship and played rugby until 1889
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In the 1900's Enrenst married Marry Georgina Newton.
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In 1901 Ernest and Mary had their only child Eileen, but unfortionatly she died the day before Christmas.
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In 1908 Ernest won the Copley Medal, the Elliot Cresson Medal, the Franklin Medal, the Rumford Mecal, and the Marreucci Medal.
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On September 10 1908, Ernest won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the structure of the atom.
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In 1909 Ernest Rutherford split the atom. (He was the first person to ever split hte atom)
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Ernest Rutherford died on October 19 1937.
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Ernest died because of a strangulated hernia.
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Ernest Rutherford was buried in Westminister Abbey, United Kingdom.
