1. By: Kass, Chris, and Taylor

2.  Earnest Rutherford was born August 30 th 1871 in New Zealand to James and Martha Rutherford. Rutherford is the fourth child out of 12.  At the age of 10 Rutherford received his first science book from Foxhill school.  In 1887 Rutherford won the only scholarship to Nelson College. He attended the college for three years.

3.  In 1903 Earnest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden launched a beam of alpha particles (uranium beam) at a sheet of gold foil. The alpha particle are highly positive charged and the experiment showed large deflections for a small fraction of incident particles. This led Rutherford to propose the atom was nuclear.

5.  Rutherford's discovery of disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances made it possible for other scientists to come up with there experiments.

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