Noun
British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
Source: WordNetBetween 1900 and 1903, Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy showed how thorium decayed at a fixed rate over time into a series of other elements. Source: Internet
Bohr atom In 1909, Ernest Rutherford discovered that the bulk of the atomic mass was tightly condensed into a nucleus, which was also found to be positively charged. Source: Internet
Ernest Rutherford demonstrated that rays could pass through thin metal foils, behavior expected of a particle. Source: Internet
Following the discovery of the atomic nucleus by Ernest Rutherford in 1911, Antonius van den Broek proposed that the place of each element in the periodic table (its atomic number) is equal to its nuclear charge. Source: Internet
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy jointly had continued their work on radioactive materials and concluded that radioactivity was due to a spontaneous transmutation of atomic elements. Source: Internet
Characteristics Emission spectrum of radon, photographed by Ernest Rutherford in 1908. Source: Internet