Monday, 26 March 2012

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand in 1871. After winning a scholarship to Canterbury College, Christchurch, he began his reasearch into magnetic viscosity. Shortly, after he was accepted into Trinity College, Cambridge, where he carried out a series of experiments using wireless transmissions, he made the notible discovery of three types of uranium radiations. Later in 1907 he began work as a professor at Manchester University after reciving his Nobel Prize for chemisty. Ernest became president of the Royal Society from 1925 to 1930, before his death in 1937.

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