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Essay Galaxy - Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford was born in Nelson, New Zealand.
Rutherford 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 dissolving
the surface layer of the metal in acid.
He began work at Cambridge in 1895 and was a
professor at the University of Manchester from 1907 on.
It is during this time period that Rutherford made his
most important discoveries. Most of Rutherford's work
was centered on radioactivity. He is the one who named
the alpha and beta particles. In 1911, Rutherford
conducted his famous "gold foil" experiment. He directed
alpha particles at a thin sheet of gold foil and expected
the particles to simply travel straight through the foil.
However, he obtai....
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