Ernest Rutherford

My name is Jiahao and I researched Ernest Rutherford with Sophie and Jacob. This is what we found out about him:He was born in Brightwater on the 30 of August 1871 Nelson, New Zealand. He went to Havelock School and then the Nelson College for Boys and won a Scholarship to Canterbury College, University of New Zealand where he studied electrical technology.

He discovered two types of radioactivity, alpha decay and beta decay. He later identified the alpha particle as helium atom and he split the atom. He demonstrated that radioactivity was the disintegration of the atom into other types of atoms. He also invented a way to detect electromagnetic waves. Ernest Rutherford discovered that the nucleus of and atom has a positive charge and discovered the evidence to show the electron field surrounding the nucleus in an atom.

Rutherford blasted a narrow beam of alpha particles onto the gold foil, one atom thin. He first suspected that all of the alpha particles would pass through the thin foil, yet he realized that some alpha particcted back