Sir ernest rutherford biography template
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Sir ernest rutherford biography template
Biography Ernest Rutherford
The Noble Prize winner Ernest Rutherford was born on 30 August 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. His parents, James and Martha had a large family of seven sons and five daughters. Ernest was their second son and fourth child.
At age 15, he obtained a secondary school scholarship to study at Nelson College before moving to Canterbury College (part of the University of New Zealand).
He gained three degrees while studying in New Zealand, a BA in 1892 followed by a MA in 1893 and a BSc in 1894. His research projects during this time centered on the field of electromagnetism.
In 1895 with the aid of a grant from the 1851, Exhibition Rutherford left New Zealand to travel to England where he joined Professor J.
J. Thomson at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory as a researcher. At first, he continued his work on electromagnetic waves then switched to studying electrical conduction of gases.
During his study of gases, he exposed gas samples to X-rays