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Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871 in Nelson, New Zeland. He is the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters.
 * Rutherford's Biography**

His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, emigrated to New Zealand with Ernest's grandfather and the whole family in 1842. His mother, née Martha Thompson, was an English schoolteacher, who, with her widowed mother, also went to live there in 1855.

He died in Cambridge on October 19, 1937. His ashes were buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey, just west of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and by that of Lord Kelvin.

Ernest Rutherford began his research and discovered atoms have a small charged nucleus prior to 1911 in New Zealand, his discovery of the first proton was prior to 1919, however, he has been studying since 1989. He has researched at many places including Nelson Collegiate School, Cantebury College at the University of New Zealand, Cavendish Labratory in England at the University of Cambridge, and the University of Manchester. 1893: Henry Ford built the first car 1901: USA builds the Panama Canal 1903: The first airplane is flown 1907: WWI
 * Rutherford's Research**
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Ernest Rutherford used 0.0004 cm thick, gold foil that was coated in zinc for his experiment. He also used flashes of light by shooting them through the gold foil.



 **** Ernest Rutherford’s experiment with alpha rays led to his conclusion of the atomic theory. In his experiment with alpha rays Ernest explains the atom as a small, yet heavy nucleus that has an orbit of electrons around it. Rutherford performed his experiment by bombarding a piece of gold foil with fast moving, positively charged particles. He noticed that most of the particles passed through the foil and a very small amount deflected off of it, this led him to the conclusion that most of an atom is empty space and the nucleus is the mass that deflected that small amount of rays. This experiment is demonstrated in the picture above. **
 * Rutherford **** 's Experiment that Lead to His Atomic Theory

1. Atom’s have a central nucleus with a positive charge 2. Atom’s nucleus have negatively charged electrons orbiting around it 3.  The atom’s small nucleus is where most of the mass is 4.  The rest of the atom was empty space
 * Main Points of Rutherford's Theory **

1. The gold foil evperiment was incomplete 2. he did know exactly where his electrons were
 * Errors of Rutherford's Theory **


 * Rutherford's Atomic Model/Theory**

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