Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Born	August 30, 1871(1871-08-30) Brightwater, New Zealand
Died	October 19, 1937 (aged 66) Cambridge, England
Residence	England
Nationality	New Zealand
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	McGill University University of Manchester
Alma mater	University of Canterbury Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor	J. J. Thomson
Doctoral students	Mark Oliphant Patrick Blackett Hans Geiger Niels Bohr Cecil Powell Teddy Bullard Pyotr Kapitsa John Cockcroft Ernest Walton Charles Drummond Ellis James Chadwick Ernest Marsden Edward Andrade Frederick Soddy Edward Victor Appleton Bertram Boltwood Kazimierz Fajans Charles Galton Darwin
Known for	Being "the father" of nuclear physics
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
Notes Note that he is the father-in-law of Ralph Fowler. Rutherford had a DSc (1900) from the University of New Zealand.

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a chemist (B.Sc. in chemistry and geology 1894, Canterbury College, New Zealand) and a physicist who became known as the "father" of nuclear physics. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom through his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Ernest_Rutherford2. ... is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Brightwater is a town 20 kilometres southwest of Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand. ... is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Early years

Ernest Rutherford was the son of James Rutherford, a farmer who had emigrated from Perth, Scotland, and his wife Martha (née Thompson), originally of Hornchurch, Essex, England.^[1] His parents had moved to New Zealand "to raise a little flax and a lot of children". Ernest was born at Spring Grove (now Brightwater), near Nelson, New Zealand. His name was mistakenly spelt Earnest Rutherford when his birth was registered.^[2] He studied at Havelock School and then Nelson College and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury College, University of New Zealand where he was president of the debating society among other things. In 1895, after gaining his BA, MA and BSc, and doing two years of research at the forefront of electrical technology, Rutherford travelled to England for postgraduate study at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1895–1898), and he briefly held the world record for the distance over which electromagnetic waves could be detected. During the investigation of radioactivity he coined the terms alpha and beta to describe the two distinct types of radiation emitted by thorium and uranium. Perth (Scottish Gaelic: ) is a royal burgh in central Scotland. ... This article is about the country. ... Hornchurch is a town in the London Borough of Havering in East London. ... For other meanings of Essex, see Essex (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Brightwater is a town 20 kilometres southwest of Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand. ... The City of Nelson is situated very close to the centre of New Zealand. ... Wikinews has news related to: New Zealand boarding school closed due to gastro-enteritis outbreak Nelson College is a boys-only state secondary school in Nelson, New Zealand. ... The New Zealand University Bursary or Bursary was New Zealands standard secondary school leaving qualification gained at the end of NZ Form VII (= UK Upper Sixth Form). ... This page is about the New Zealand university. ... The former University of New Zealand existed as New Zealands only degree awarding university from 1870 to 1961. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Plaque, at old site Entrance, old site, Free School Lane The Cavendish Laboratory is the University of Cambridges Department of Physics, and is part of the universitys School of Physical Sciences. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... Radioactivity may mean: Look up radioactivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An alpha particle is deflected by a magnetic field Alpha particles or alpha rays are a form of particle radiation which are highly ionizing and have low penetration. ... Beta particles are high-energy electrons emitted by certain types of radioactive nuclei such as potassium-40. ...

Middle years

In 1898 Rutherford was appointed to the chair of physics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he did the work which gained him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908. From 1900 till 1903 he was joined by the young Frederick Soddy (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921) where they collaborated on research into the transmutation of elements. Ernest Rutherford had demonstrated that radioactivity was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms. He noticed that a sample of radioactive material invariably took the same amount of time for half the sample to decay — its "half-life" — and created a practical application for this phenomenon using this constant rate of decay as a clock, which could then be used to help determine the actual age of the Earth that turned out to be much older than most of the scientists at the time believed. McGill University is a publicly funded, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Frederick Soddy in 1922. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... For other uses, see Atom (disambiguation). ... Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ...

In 1900 he married Mary Georgina Newton (1876-1945); they had one daughter Eileen Mary (1901-1930), who married Ralph Fowler. Ralph Howard Fowler (January 17, 1889 – July 28, 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer. ...

In 1907 Rutherford took the chair of physics at the University of Manchester. There he did the experiments along with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden (Geiger-Marsden experiment) that discovered the nuclear nature of atoms. It was his interpretation of this experiment that led him to the Rutherford model of the atom having a very small positively charged nucleus orbited by electrons. He became the first person in 1919 to transmute one element into another when he converted nitrogen into oxygen through the nuclear reaction ¹⁴N(α,p)¹⁷O. In 1921, while working with Niels Bohr (who postulated that electrons moved in specific orbits), Rutherford theorized about the existence of neutrons, which could somehow compensate for the repelling effect of the positive charges of protons by causing an attractive nuclear force and thus keeping the nuclei from breaking apart. Rutherford's theory of neutrons was later proved in 1932 by his associate James Chadwick who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery in 1935. Affiliations: Russell Group, EUA, N8 Group, NWUA, Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), Association of Commonwealth Universities Website: http://www. ... Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ... Sir Ernest Marsden (1888 - 1970), was a British-New Zealand physicist. ... Top: Expected results: alpha particles passing through the plum pudding model of the atom undisturbed. ... A stylised representation of the Rutherford model of a lithium atom The Rutherford model was a model of the atom devised by Ernest Rutherford. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... The periodic table of the chemical elements A chemical element, or element, is a type of atom that is defined by its atomic number; that is, by the number of protons in its nucleus. ... General Name, symbol, number nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, period, block 15, 2, p Appearance colorless gas Standard atomic weight 14. ... This article is about the chemical element and its most stable form, or dioxygen. ... In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles. ... Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Proton (disambiguation). ... Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the neutron. ...

Later years

He was knighted in 1914. In 1919 he returned to the Cavendish as Director. Under him, Nobel Prizes were awarded to Chadwick for discovering the neutron (in 1932), Cockcroft and Walton for splitting the atom using a particle accelerator and Appleton for demonstrating the existence of the ionosphere. He was admitted to the Order of Merit in 1925 and in 1931 was created Baron Rutherford of Nelson, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge, a title which became extinct upon his unexpected death in hospital following a hernia operation. Since he was a Lord, British protocol required that he be operated on by a titled doctor, and the delay cost him his life.^[3] He is interred in Westminster Abbey alongside J. J. Thomson. The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. ... Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the neutron. ... See also: John Cockroft (politician) Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 - September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. ... Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with atom-smashing experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s. ... For the DC Comics Superhero also called Atom Smasher, see Albert Rothstein. ... Sir Edward Victor Appleton (September 6, 1892 – April 21, 1965) was an English physicist. ... Relationship of the atmosphere and ionosphere The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is ionized by solar radiation. ... The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. ... Look up hernia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often mistaken for one), in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. ...

Impact and legacy

His research, along with that of his protégé Sir Mark Oliphant, was instrumental in the convening of the Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear weapons. He is famously quoted as saying: "In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting." He is also reputed to have stated that the idea of using nuclear reaction to generate useful power was "moonshine".^[4] Sir Marcus Mark Laurence Elwin Oliphant AC KBE (October 8, 1901 – July 14, 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the development of the Atomic bomb. ... This article is about the World War II nuclear project. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Things named after Rutherford include:

• the element rutherfordium, Rf, Z=104. (1997)^[5]
• craters on Mars and the Moon
• a building of the modern Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, UK
• the Rutherford Institute for Innovation at the University of Cambridge, UK
• the physics and chemistry building at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• The Coupland Building where Rutherford worked at the University of Manchester was renamed "The Rutherford Building" in 2006
• The Rutherford lecture theatre in the Schuster building at the University of Manchester
• The Ernest Rutherford Physics Building at McGill University, Montreal, Canada^[6]
• Rutherford College, a school in Auckland, New Zealand
• Rutherford Intermediate, Wanganui, New Zealand
• a house at his own high school, Nelson College,
• a house at Waimea College, Richmond, New Zealand
• a house at Corran School for Girls, Auckland, New Zealand
• a house at Rangiora High School, Rangiora, New Zealand
• a house at Macleans College, Auckland, New Zealand
• a house at Mount Roskill Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand
• a house at Cashmere High School, Christchurch, New Zealand
• a house at Shirley Boys' High School, Christchurch, New Zealand
• a house at St Andrews College, Christchurch, New Zealand
• a house at Island School, Hong Kong
• a house at Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Singapore
• a house at Rangitoto College, Auckland, New Zealand
• Rutherford College, a college building at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK
• a student hall at Loughborough University.
• a lecture theatre at the University of Manchester.
• Rutherford was the subject of a play by Stuart Hoar.
• Rochester and Rutherford Hall a boarding house at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory a UK scientific research laboratory near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
• Rutherford Close a residential street in Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
• a Physics classroom in the Portsmouth Grammar School
• Rutherford Road in biotech district of Carlsbad, CA, USA
• Lord Rutherford Road in Brightwater - his birthplace.
• Rutherford Street in Nelson.
• Rutherford Residence Hall at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ

On the side of the Mond Laboratory at the site of the original Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, there is an engraving in Rutherford's memory in the form of a crocodile, this being the nickname given to him by its commissioner, Rutherford's colleague Peter Kapitza. The initials of the engraver, Eric Gill, are visible within the mouth. General Name, Symbol, Number rutherfordium, Rf, 104 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 4, 7, d Standard atomic weight (265) g·mol−1 Electron configuration probably [Rn] 5f14 6d2 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 10, 2 Physical properties Phase presumably a solid Density (near r. ... Tycho crater on Earths moon. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... This article is about Earths moon. ... 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Rutherford was known as "the crocodile". Engraving by Eric Gill at the original Cavendish site in Cambridge.

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2018x2337, 975 KB) Summary Le crocodile de Rutherford sur un mur de lancien laboratoire Cavendish, Cambridge,Royaume-Uni, photo personnelle Rutherfords crocodile on a wall of the Old Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United-Kingdom, own picture 02/12/2005, St... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2018x2337, 975 KB) Summary Le crocodile de Rutherford sur un mur de lancien laboratoire Cavendish, Cambridge,Royaume-Uni, photo personnelle Rutherfords crocodile on a wall of the Old Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United-Kingdom, own picture 02/12/2005, St... Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (February 22, 1882–November 17, 1940) was a British sculptor, typographer and engraver. ...

Rutherford's works

• Radio-activity (1904), 2nd ed. (1905), ISBN 978-1-60355-058-1
• Radioactive Transformations (1906), ISBN 978-160355-054-3
• Radiations from Radioactive Substances (1919)
• The Electrical Structure of Matter (1926)
• The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements (1933)
• The Newer Alchemy (1937)

References

• R. H. Cragg (1971). "Lord Ernest Rutherford of Nelson (1871–1937)". Royal Institute of Chemistry Reviews (4): 129 - 145. doi:10.1039/RR9710400129. 
• E. Marsden (1954). "The Rutherford Memorial Lecture, 1954. Rutherford-His Life and Work, 1871-1937". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A 226 (1166): 283-305. 

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• The Rutherford Museum
• Rutherford Scientist Supreme. For book email the publisher aas@canterbury.ac.nz
• "Ernest Rutherford 1871 - 1937". A Science Odyssey, pbs.org.
• http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford.html
• Annotated bibliography for Ernest Rutherford from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• You can search for Ernest Rutherford @ http://www.dnzb.govt.nz
• Biography in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
• Rutherford at Canterbury University College. The Rutherford Journal
• Rutherford's Timebomb: a New Zealand Herald article about Rutherford's contribution to dating the Age of the Earth
• BBC Radio 4: In Our Time - Rutherford