DIGITAL ALBUM SUBMITTED TO, Dr. LIBY CHERIAN Asst.prof. in physical science Kaviyatt college of education

SUBMITTED BY, GANGA.S B.ED Physical science Kaviyatt college of education

ERNEST RUTHERFORD (30 AUGUST 1871-19 OCTOBER 1937)

ERNEST RUTHERFORD (1871-1937) New Zealand physicist Father of Nuclear Physics

EARLY LIFE ❖ Born on August 30,1871,in Nelson, New Zealand. ❖ Fourth child of James Rutherford and nee Martha Thompson. ❖He was fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters.

Sir Ernest Rutherford and wife Mary Newton at Trinity college in Cambridge(1921)

Daughter, Eileen Mary(1901-1930),who married the physicist Ralph Fowler

JOURNEY OF PHYSICIST From New Zealand to Cambridge

Nelson college,New Zealand:Rutherford entered there at age 16,1887

B.A,M.A,and B.Sc. From canterbury college, university of New Zealand

“All science ‘ is either Physics or stamp collecting!”

Portrait of Rutherford in 1892,when he was a student at canterbury college,New Zealand

At the Cavendish laboratory,Cambridge University Rutherford worked and studied under JJ Thomson

McGill university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Rutherford discovered the concept of Radioactive half–life,the radioactive element Radon and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiations.

Discovery of Alpha and Beta radiations

Ernest Rutherford at McGill university in 1905

DISCOVERIES OF RUTHERFORD #1 He invented an early detector of radio waves

#2 He discovered Alpha and Beta Radioactivity

#3 He discovered the principle of Half-life and applied it to Radiometric Dating

#4 Rutherford discovered that atoms were not indestructible

#5 He formulated Rutherford model of atom

#6 He analysed the Gold foil experiment to discover Rutherford scattering

#7 Ernest Rutherford discovered the Atomic Nucleus

#8 He discovered the proton in 1917

#9 He theorized the existence of Neutron

#10 He is known as the Father of Nuclear Physics

“I HAVE BROKEN THE MACHINE AND TOUCHED THE GHOST OF THE MATTER” -ERNEST RUTHERFORD

PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS • PUBLICATIONS ✓Radio-activity(1904),2nd ed.(1905),ISBN 978-1-60355-058-1 ✓Radioactive Transformations,NY 1906,ISBN 978-1-60355-054-3 ✓Radioactive substances and their radiations,CUP1913 ✓Radiations from radioactive substances,CUP 1930 ✓The electrical structure of matter(1926) ✓The artificial transmutation of elements (1933) ✓The Newer Alchemy(1937)

• Awards ✓Rumford medal(1904) ✓Nobel prize in Chemistry(1908) ✓Barnard award(1910) ✓Elliot Cresson medal(1910) ✓Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences(1911) ✓Matteuci medal(1913) ✓Hector memorial medal(1916) ✓Dalton medal(1919) ✓Copley medal(1922) ✓Franklin medal(1924) ✓Albert medal(1928) ✓Faraday medal(1930) ✓Wilhelm Exner medal(1936)

IN THE MEMORY OF RUTHERFORD…..

A statue of Rutherford at his memorial in brightwater New Zealand

Rutherford in New Zealand currency

His soul departed on 19 October 1937

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