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Rutherford
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Ernest was born in Nelson, New Zealand.
demonstrated his abilities as a scientist early
on while working on his B.Sc. at the University of New
Zealand in 1894. He showed that the magnetization can
be removed from a magnetized iron needle by .... Middle of Term Paper
... fact go straight through the
foil, some of them were deflected at large angles.
Rutherford concluded that the deflections of the alpha
particles were caused by a center of positive charge that
contained most of the atom's mass (the nucleus). He also
explained that the particles that went straight through the
foil did so because the atom is mostly empty space and
that the distance between electrons and the nucleus is
vast compared to the size of the nucleus itself.
In 1919, he discovered the "artificial disintegration" of
nitrogen. His experiments show that under alpha
radiation, nitrogen is decomposed and hydrogen is
formed. Rutherford als ... |
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