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  1. Discussion on Heavy Hydrogen. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character. Vol. CXLIV, pp. 1-28; 235-249; 266-279; 285-307. by Lord Ernest (1871-1937). RUTHERFORD, 1934-01-01
  2. The Artificial Transmutation of the Elements Being the Thirty-fifth Robert Boyle Lecture Delivered Before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club on 2nd June 1933 by Ernest Lord Rutherford, 1933
  3. Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, 3 Volumes.Published Under the Scientific Direction of Sir James Chadwick. by Ernest Rutherford, 1962
  4. The collected papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson by Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, 1963
  5. The collected papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson by Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, 1962
  6. The collected papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson by Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, 1965
  7. Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, Volume One: New Zealand by Ernest Rutherford, 1962
  8. Rutherford: Being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M., by A. S Eve, 1939
  9. Lord Rutherford on the golf course by Frederick George Mann, 1976
  10. Lord Rutherford by Norman Feather, 1973-04
  11. Lord Rutherford of Nelson,: A tribute to New Zealand's greatest scientists, by Charles M Focken, 1937
  12. Lord Rutherford, 1871-1937 by A. S Eve, 1938
  13. Some personal memories of Lord Rutherford of Nelson (Cawthron lecture series) by Henry H Dale, 1950

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Sono fondamentali le sue ricerche sui fenomeni radioattivi, effettuate dal 1897 al 1907 in collaborazione con J.J. Thomson e F.Soddy, per determinare le leggi di decadimento ( a e b ) degli elementi radioattivi delle tre famiglie naturali (dell'uranio-radio, del torio e dell' attinio). Nell'ambito di ciascuna serie il capostipite, che è l'elemento con la vita media più lunga (alcuni miliardi di anni), decadendo si trasforma nell'elemento radioattivo successivo, e così via attraverso tutti gli elementi instabili consecutivi, fino alla formazione di un elemento stabile (un isotopo del piombo). La sua principale scoperta riguarda il nucleo atomico.
Nel 1911 Rutherford , dopo due anni di ricerche effettuate assieme Geiger e Marsden ,bombardando sottili foglie d'oro con particelle a ed esaminando la distribuzione angolare delle particelle diffuse in tutte le direzioni, si rese conto dell' impossibilità di accettare il modello atomico proposto nel 1902 da J.J. Thomson, che immaginava gli elettroni dispersi

42. The World & I: Ernest Rutherford
lord rutherford achieved both. In a generation that witnessed one of the greatest honors list for 1931, thus becoming ernest, lord rutherford of Nelson.
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"It is given to but few men to achieve immortality, still less to achieve Olympian rank, during their own lifetime. Lord Rutherford achieved both. In a generation that witnessed one of the greatest revolutions in the entire history of science he was universally acknowledged as the leading explorer of the vast, infinitely complex universe within the atom, a universe that he was first to penetrate. " Eulogy in the New York Times, 1937

rnest Rutherford is to the atom what Darwin is to evolution, Newton to mechanics, Faraday to electricity, and Einstein to relativity. Rutherford's fame is based not on one discovery but rather on three separate occasions in which he radically altered our understanding of nature. These were three giant steps toward today's generally accepted understanding of the elemental building blocks of matter, atoms.
Through brilliantly conceived experiments, and with special insight, he explained the perplexing problem of radioactivity as the spontaneous disintegration of atoms. He also determined the nuclear structure of the atom, and, as the world's first successful alchemist, converted nitrogen into oxygen. Or put another way, he was first to split the atom.

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45. Rutherford, Ernest - Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry
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FRS Online Sources Archival/Heritage Sources Published Sources Physicist Born: 30 August 1871 New Zealand. Died: 19 October 1937. Ernest Rutherford was appointed Director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1919 where he specialised in nuclear physics, having previously been Professor of Physics, McGill University 1898-1907 and Manchester University 1907-19. He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908. Career Highlights Born 30 August 1871. Died 19 October 1937. Kt cr 1914, OM 1925, Peer (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 1931.Educated Canterbury College, Christchurch (BA 1892, MA 1893, BSc 1894) and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Professor of physics, McGill University 1898-1907, Professor of physics, University of Manchester 1907-19, Director, Cavendish Laboratory 1919-37, professor of natural philosophy, Royal Institution, London 1921-37. Bakerian lecture, Royal Society 1904, Silliman lectures, Yale University 1905, Rumford Medal, Royal Society 1904, Nobel Prize for chemistry 1908, Bakerian Lecture, Royal Society 1920, Copley Medal, Royal Society 1922. President, Section A, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1909, President, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1925, President, Royal Society 1925-30. Online Sources Published Sources

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Title: Ernest Rutherford - Records Reference: MS 77 Date Range: Description: Handwritten letter from J.J. Thomson to Rutherford 1908; personal bank book (England) 1922-33; an annotated copy by Rutherford of J.T. Bottomley's "Four Figure Mathematical Tables" [8 cm, MS 77]. See also a letter from Rutherford to Sir Leonard Huxley 1935 [in the Huxley papers, MS 102]. Quantity: 0.08 m Access: Available for reference Online Finding Aid: 'Lord Rutherford of Nelson - Ms 77', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings , Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms077.txt Top of Page Published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on ASAPWeb
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rutherford, lord ernest 1936, The newer alchemy based on the Henry Sedgewickmemorial lecture delivered at Newnham College, Cambridge, Cambridge University
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    Lord Rutherford has had a profound influence of the development of physics in the last hundred years and has been described as the father of nuclear physics. He made substantial contributions to the understanding of radioactive decay, identifying the alpha particle as a helium atom and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this work in 1908. His most profound work was in developing the nuclear theory of the atom and the backscattering experiment that bears his name to prove this. He also produced the first artificial disintegration of elements by showing that nitrogen atoms colliding with alpha particles decay to oxygen and hydrogen. Lord Rutherford was born in Nelson, New Zealand, educated at Canterbury College, Christchurch and Cambridge University and held chairs at McGill University, Montreal, Manchester University and Cambridge. Knighted in 1914, he become Baron Rutherford of Nelson in 1931 and died in 1937. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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    ernest rutherford is ranked in fame with Sir Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday, lord rutherford. London Balckie Sons, Ltd,. Glasgow, ©1973
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    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Thomson later asked Rutherford to join him in a study of the effects of passing a beam of X-rays through a gas. They discovered that the X-rays produced large quantities of electrically charged particles and these ionized atoms recombined to form neutral molecules. Working on his own, Rutherford then devised a technique for measuring the velocity and rate of recombination of these positive and negative ions. The published papers on this subject remain classics to the present day. In 1900 Ernest married Mary Newton, eventually having one daughter. His chief recreations were golf and motoring. He also violently opposed the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. In the 1930's, the last years of his life he helped Jewish refugees flee from Nazi persecution. He was said to be a very kind and gracious man. He died in Cambridge on October 19, 1937, following a short illness, and his ashes were buried in the nave of Westminister Abbey, just west of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and by that of Lord Kelvin. Bibliography http://www.physics.21a.ac.uk/introPhy/Famous/rutherford/rutherford.html

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    (Redirected from Ernest Rutherford photo of Ernest Rutherford The Right Honourable Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, PC OM FRS August 30 ... October 19 ), was a New Zealand -born British nuclear physicist. He was known as the "father" of nuclear physics , pioneered the orbital theory of the atom , notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment Rutherford was born at Spring Grove, (now in Brightwater ), near Nelson . He studied at Nelson College and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury College University of New Zealand , with three degrees and two years of research at the forefront of electrical technology. In Rutherford travelled to England for postgraduate study at the Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge ), and was resident at Trinity College . There he briefly held the world record for the distance over which wireless waves were detected. During the investigation of radioactivity he coined the terms alpha beta , and gamma rays Lord Rutherford of Nelson on the New Zealand 100 dollar note In Rutherford was appointed to the chair of physics at McGill University where he did the work which gained him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . He had demonstrated that radioactivity was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms . This is ironic given his famous remark " In science there is only physics; all the rest is

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    53. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford Of Nelson - Art History
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    54. Ernest Rutherford Bio From Thin Film Analysis
    ernest rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, Strutt (lord Rayleigh) in 1901 and Sir William Crookes in 1902 suggested that
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    56. RUTHERFORD, Sir Ernest - RUTHERFORD, Sir Ernest - 1966 Encyclopaedia Of New Zeal
    ernest rutherford was born on 30 August 1871 at Spring Grove (now Brightwater), lord rutherford died at Cambridge, England, on 19 October 1937.
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    Physicist. Ernest Rutherford was born on 30 August 1871 at Spring Grove (now Brightwater), Nelson Province, New Zealand. On his birth certificate his name, entered by his father, appears as Earnest, but on his marriage certificate the “a” is dropped. He was the son of James Rutherford who, with his father, George, emigrated from Perth, Scotland. His mother was Martha, n©e Thompson, of Horn-church, Essex. Rutherford was educated at Foxhill (1876–81) and Havelock (1882–86) primary schools, Nelson College (1887–89), Canterbury (University) College, Christchurch (1890–95), and the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England (1895–98). At the early age of 27 Rutherford was appointed Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1898–1907). From there he advanced to the Langworthy Chair of Physics at Manchester University (1907–19); and while still in his prime was invited to fill the honoured post of Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cavendish Laboratory (1919–37), in succession to the famous Sir J. J. Thomson. After he left New Zealand in 1896 Rutherford corresponded regularly both with his fianc©e and with his mother; and much of this and of his later voluminous international correspondence has been preserved, copies having been reproduced and deposited

    57. RUTHERFORD, Sir Ernest - Portraits Of Rutherford - 1966 Encyclopaedia Of New Zea
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    At least 10 portraits of Rutherford exist, the best known being the oil by Oswald Birley, a three-quarter-length figure which hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London. An exact replica, executed by the artist on commission by Lord Bledisloe, is in the portrait gallery of the Dominion Art Gallery, Wellington. It represents Rutherford standing in a typical pose, as though addressing an audience, and with one of his many famous pieces of apparatus alongside. It was with this comparatively simple apparatus that he showed, in 1909, that accumulated alpha particles, quite independently of the particular radioactive material from which they were expelled, consist of the element helium. This famous experiment convincingly reaffirmed the natural transmutation of one element into another. A pencil sketch, head and shoulders, by Francis Dodd, which hangs in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is perhaps one of the best and most characteristic representations of Rutherford. This was reproduced for the first time in the N.Z. Science Review

    58. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford Of Nelson - Linix Encyclopedia
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    The origins of the Museum This Museum is under the custodianship of the Physics Department. The Rutherford Museum contains a collection of the actual apparatus used by Ernest Rutherford when he was Professor of Experimental Physics at McGill, 1898-1907. This apparatus enabled Rutherford to investigate the newly-discovered phenomenon of radioactivity, to establish the nature of the alpha rays emitted by radium and thorium, and to the revolutionary theory of radioactive transformation for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1908. The formulate Museum also includes some photographs, letters, documents, and other materials relating to Rutherford's work. The apparatus displayed in the Rutherford Museum is (with one exception) home-made and simple in design and construction. However, the term 'simple' should not be confused with 'simplistic.' On the contrary, the concepts underlying the apparatus were highly sophisticated and enabled Rutherford to obtain direct answers to specific questions. The period covered by this Museum was still within the age of 'Little Science.' A scientist would design the apparatus for an experiment and it would then be constructed in the machine shop. At the conclusion of the experiment the apparatus would be returned to the workshop, where it would be dismantled, since many of the components (such as brass plates, blocks of wax, glass tubing, etc.) could be re-used in later equipment. This was known as 'cannibalizing the apparatus.' This would normally have happened to Rutherford's apparatus, but for the foresight of his colleague Howard Barnes, who pointed out that Rutherford was a pioneer in a new field of science and, by 1900, was already world-famous: it would be a crime against posterity to destroy his apparatus. The equipment was therefore put away in a cupboard, where it remained, undisturbed, until the late 1930s.

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