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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, HonFRSE [7] (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.
Apr 2, 2014 · Dubbed the “Father of the Nuclear Age,” Rutherford died in Cambridge, England, on October 19, 1937, of a strangulated hernia. Early Life and Education
Ernest Rutherford, British physicist who discovered that the atom is mostly empty space surrounding a massive nucleus and who did many pioneering experiments with radioactivity. He was also known for predicting the existence of the neutron and calculating Avogadro’s number. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908.
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. *
R was the source of alpha particles, E was the gold foil, and M was the microscope rotatable around a vertical axis centered on the gold foil. Alpha particles from the source passed through the diaphragm D, were scattered by the foil, and were observed as scintillations on the screen S. Geiger and Marsden observed the angles of scattered particles by rotating the microscope-screen assembly.
In the now well-known experiment, alpha particles were observed to scatter backwards from a gold foil. Rutherford’s explanation, which he published in May 1911, was that the scattering was caused by a hard, dense core at the center of the atom–the nucleus.
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