Hello everyone, the blog of today is about one of the most famous chemist, Ernest Rutherford.
Ernest Rutherford born on August 30th of 1871 in Brightwater,New Zeland. He was a chemist and a physicist, known for his studies about the radioactivity and the disintrigation of the elements, he won a Nobel Prize for this investigations. Rutherford is known also for his atomic model and for the investigation in which he discovered the existence of the nucleus. He was the first person who do the transmutation of an element, in that experiment, Rutherford used alpha radiation (a particle oh Helium) to convert Nitrogen into Oxygen.
The experiment in which he discovered the nucleus and his most famous work consisted on a gold foil irradiated with alpha particles (positive particles), some of this particles were deflected and his interpretation of that experiment was that a small positive charged nucleus was located in the center, orbited by electrons.
Personally I like and I admire this chemist-physicist because I like the things related to the radioactivity and to the nuclear chemistry and he was one of the first scientist to investigate this areas.
When I was in school, the only atomic model that I always remembered was the Rutherford model haha
ResponderEliminarHe was an amazing scientist men for his discovers but He was wrong in some things jaja
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