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= Earnest Rutherford: The discovery of how an atom worked =

By: maggiet462
=__** Early Life: **__=
 * Born August 30, 1871


 * He was the 12th child out of 14 kids in his family


 * He was born near Nelson, New Zealand in pioneer country


 * At age 15 he got a scholarship to Nelson Collage, a high school with 80 students which were all boys


 * After he finished high school he received another scholarship to the Cambridge University in Canterbury


 * In collage he studied astronomy and physics


 * In 1900 he married Mary Newton


 * And had their first and only child the next year her name is Eileen


 * __What he discovered and found:__ **
 * Him and Fredrick Soddy succeeded in discovering a new branch of physics called radioactivity


 * He discovered a way to use radioactivity to find what an atom looked like


 * Discovered the terms ‘Alpha’ and ‘Beta’ to describe the difference between uranium and thorium

__** Atoms and radioactivity: **__ // Atom: //

// . // An atom is the smallest component with chemical properties containing a nucleus with many neutrons and protons inside one electron, creating electrical attraction.

 * Everything is made up of chemical elements and the smallest part of each element is an atom


 * There are all different types of atoms, your body is not made up of the same atoms as a table at your house is

// Radioactivity: //
 * Radioactivity is a phenomenon by being a property of certain elements that is spontaneously admitting radiation, resulting in the nuclei in the atom.


 * Atoms with too much energy in their nuclei is called radioactivity


 * When the nuclei inside the atom can’t hold the energy anymore it will get rid it sooner or later and that is called radioactivity

__** Later life: **__
 * Was awarded the Nobel in Chemistry for his work

. An element is named after him for his hard work it is called ‘Rutherfordium’

. On October 19, 1937 he died of a preventable disease



__** Citations: **__
 * Heilbron, J.L. Earnest Rutherford and the Explosions of Atoms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Print. **


 * // Rutherford, Ernest. // Photograph. //Encyclopædia Britannica.// Web. 20 Sep. 2013. < [|__http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/276825/media?assemblyId=106862__] >. **


 * // Rutherford of Nelson, Ernest Rutherford, Baron. // Photograph. //Encyclopædia Britannica.// Web. 20 Sep. 2013. < [|__http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/276825/media?assemblyId=59246__] >. **


 * Schelling, Raffles. Encyclopedia of World Biography. Edition 13. Detroit: Gale Research. 1998. Print. **


 * Scientist Kids. “Earnest Rutherford”.July 13, 2013.Web. September 18, 2013 **
 * "Ernest Rutherford." //Britannica School.// Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 20 Sep. 2013. **