Ernest Rutherford

By gus_grm

  • Personal life

    Born at Sprin Grove.

  • Education

    Fox Hill School

  • Education

    Havelock School

  • Education

    Atended Nelson College

  • Invention

    First reaserch paper published.

  • Discovery

    Discoveres rays from radioactive materials are of two main types, which he names ALPHA and BETA.

  • Education

    Mc Gill University

  • Discovery

    Radioactive gas, later named Radon

  • Education

    Manchester University

  • Invention

    Rutherford- Geiger detector of single ionizing particles.

  • Achievements

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry

  • Invention

    Announces the nuclear model of the atom.

  • Discovery

    Predicts existance of a neutron.

  • Personal life

    Dies, ashes buried in Westminister Abbey