4. Conti. Rutherford married Mary Newton, only daughter of Arthur and Mary de Renzy Newton, in 1900. Their only child, Eileen, married the physicist R.H. Fowler. Rutherford's chief recreations were golf and motoring. 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.

6. Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms have a very dense nucleus, which contains protons. ford eventually coined the terms for some of the most basic principles in the field: alpha, beta, and gamma rays, the proton, the neutron, half-life, and daughter atoms he found that all known radioactive elements emit two kinds of radiation: positively and negatively charged, or alpha and beta. He showed that every radioactive element decreases in radioactivity over a unique and regular time, or half-life, ultimately becoming stable.

7. The Rutherford gold- foil experiment In 1911 physicist Ernest Rutherford disproved William Thomson’s model of the atom as a uniformly distributed substance. Because a few of the alpha particles in his beam were scattered by large angles after striking the gold foil, Rutherford knew that the gold atom’s mass must be concentrated in a tiny, dense nucleus.

8. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistr y/laureates/1908/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford Web Sites

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