Biography Of Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford was born at Bridgewater, close to Nelson, New Zealand. His parents had emigrated to New Zealand from Britain approximately 30 years earlier.
Rutherford was a successful all-round student at school, though did not show any real interest in science. He entered Canterbury College a ....
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.... aquainted with experimental methods involved in carrying out work with radioactivity.
At the age of 28 Rutherford took up the position of professor at the University of McGill in Montreal, Canada, carrying out research into radioactivity. The some of the most important work was in the identification of the alpha, beta and gamma radiation. In 1902, with the collaboration of Frederick Soddy, he enunciated and verified the 'spontaneous transformation' theory of radioactive decay, whereby a ra ....
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