We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Ernest Everett Just was an African American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization. Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician famous for his laws of physics.
He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. Thomson was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose research led to the discovery of electrons. James C. Maxwell was a 19th-century pioneer in chemistry and physics who articulated the idea of electromagnetism. Chemist John Dalton is credited with pioneering modern atomic theory. He was also the first to study color blindness. Ernest Rutherford postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay.
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in A consummate experimentalist, Rutherford — was responsible for a remarkable series of discoveries in the fields of radioactivity and nuclear physics. He discovered alpha and beta rays, set forth the laws of radioactive decay, and identified alpha particles as helium nuclei.
The Rutherford Memorial, with information displays about Rutherford in a garden setting, was opened on 6 December Ernest Rutherford made three major discoveries that played a large part in the development of modern science and the beginning of the nuclear age: he found out that the structure of elements can change; he developed the nuclear model of the atom which formed the basis of the model still used today; he split the atom.
He was both a thinker and a practical inventor, able to develop a scientific theory and then test it in laboratory experiments. He was a strong supporter of education and scientific research, but was aware of the misuses to which science could be put. During World War I he said he hoped that an efficient way of extracting the energy of the atom would not be discovered until men were at peace again. Before the outbreak of World War II he argued for a ban on using aeroplanes in war. Rutherford was also quick to recognise the contributions of other research scientists, often beginning research on a topic, then passing it on to a student, but refusing to take any credit by including his own name on the papers publishing the subsequent research.
Rutherford had the ability to produce powerful results from simple ideas, using simple apparatus to prove his theories. Referring to his New Zealand background, he said.
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Join About About, collapsed About. What's On. Ernest Rutherford - There, he discovered the nuclear nature of atoms and was the world's first successful "alchemist": he converted nitrogen into oxygen. He also became Chairman of the Advisory Council, H. Under Rutherford's directorship, Nobel Prizes were awarded to James Chadwick for discovering the neutron, Cockcroft and Walton for splitting the atom using a particle accelerator and Appleton for demonstrating the existence of the ionosphere.
His research was instrumental in the convening of the Manhattan Project.
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