1. ATOMIC MODEL EARNEST RUTHERFORD Chris Craddieth Richard Gore Markayla Duck Chemistry Second Block September 30, 2015

2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Scientist Earnest Rutherford was born on July 30, 1871 in Spring Grove in rural Nelson

3. POPULAR IDEA The popular idea of an atom was that it was a big sphere of a positive charge and little dots called electrons to make the atom neutral. (neutrons)

5. PICTURE OF RUTHERFORD’S MODEL

6. COMPARISON OF MODELS JJ Thompson’s model was just a big positive charge with little negative charges Rutherford’s model has little positive and negative charges to make the nucleus and there is electrons on the outside