The Life and Work of Ernest Rughterford

Thesis Statement: Through his early life experiences and with the knowledge he left behind, Sir Isaac Newton was able to develop calculus, natural forces, and optics. From birth to early childhood, Isaac Newton overcame many personal, social, and mental hardships. It is through these experiences that helped create him to be the person we know today, that is why he is worthy of the Scientist of the Century award.

By firing massively charged particles at an atom, he found that atoms are made up of smaller particles (Doc. 1).  This would lead to his discovery of protons also known as alpha particles (OI). After that, he bombarded gold foil and observed that some of the atoms passed through the foil. Therefore, he concluded that atoms are composed of empty space (OI).  

Ernest was born on September 2, 1931 in Russell, Kentucky. At eight years old, his parents passed away, therefore Ernest was raised in an orphanage at the Methodist Children's Home in Versailles, Kentucky. He had 125 brothers and there he learned the importance in brotherhood. In an interview West states, “ I thought of them as brothers and called them brothers. We Treated each other a lot with respect and we all stuck together...If you jumped on one, you had to whip about 25 of us.” He eventually dropped out of high school and took a job with the C&O railroad before being drafted.

Most of the world knows who Albert Einstein is and that he was a genius; by mentioning this he established his credibility and solidifies his argument that science

This was important however the main aspect of the competition was who, who would receive this representation, who would be the first person to split the atom to create new matter. MacPherson tells the stories of the trial and tribulations, pressures, and successes of the two main people in this scientific race: Enrico Fermi and Werner Heisenberg.

Here I focus on his life as a scientist and inventor, touching briefly on his other

J. Robert Oppenheimer, a jewish scientist that created the nuclear bomb, was seen as both a positive and negative influence on the world. Oppenheimer helped change the world during the Manhatten Project and after. Being the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" Oppenheimer gained many enemies. People did not like that he opposed the hydrogen bomb and gained cultural power. J. Robert Oppenheimer may have had both positive and negative influences on the world.

Within the last hundred years, the atomic model gone through dramatic changes allowing to apply the knowledge of matter understanding at atomic level into different industries like medicine such as MRI and X-Ray. This knowledge allowed doctors to treat, diagnose and certainly save millions of people throughout the years, which could not have been done without research being done on the structure of the atom funded continuously for these scientists to find more application which benefit people and comprehend the world we live in on an atomic level.

Contributions of scientists have been in play for thousands of years changing people’s understanding of how the world works and their daily lives. These scientists are ordinary people with curious minding that probe the world around them looking for answers and questions that are unknown to all. One of the most well known and earliest american scientist is Benjamin Franklin. He started his life as an ordinary business and scholar man trying to live a life now free of England's oppressive rule by being a printer and writer. After seeing the world around him and all the improvements it needed especially in the city of philadelphia he currently lived in (Cohen). So his curious mind dove into the realm of science to fix the problems around him while also helping improve the american people’s lives. Benjamins first interest was Isaac Newton's experiments and books, which he learned about and read. Lightning was very destructive

Henry Rutherford was born in 1862, and was known mostly for being a mechanic and for creating the first model car and opening up a world-famous company. This should be completely shocking because, he grew up a farm with no education whatsoever. He attended to Lincoln university Pennsylvania and later on went to medical college. After that he meet Selena Sloan, and got married shortly after, they created a child named Henry Rutherford Butler Jr. His son followed in his footsteps and began his medical practice. Rutherford also supported many community organizations to give back some of his success. He wrote general interest columns on what is was like being being African american in his community. He later on passed away on december 17, 1993

Adventure’s in the Atomic Age displays the idea that financial barriers and difficult courses should not be what is stopping someone from being successful in the field of science. “Scientists would feel a sense of purpose and inner satisfaction even if their efforts were not important to the world in which we live. In actuality, of course, there is no group of persons on whom society as a whole depends so heavily” (292).

I am going to be writing about democritus, J.J Thomson, E. Rutherford, N. Bohr, and Schrodinger. The reason why they are all in this report is because they contributed to the modern atomic model. First off Democritus is well known because he is the first person to think that there is a smaller thing than protons, neutrons, electrons. Next I’m gonna talk about J.J. Thomson, he discovered the electron, he found a way to make people understand why cathode rays were negatively charged, and he realized that the accepted model of an atom neither had a negative or positive charge.  E. rutherford also was a big part of the modern atomic model because he actually overturned Thomson's model when he did an experiment that helped people understand that the atom has a tiny and heavy nucleus and he made an experiment that used the alpha particles made by a radioactive element.

Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand born British physicist who is famously known for “splitting the atom.” His work on the gold foil experiment contributed greatly to the model of the atom and helped develop the standard model of the atom to what we now use today. Without his contributions we would still be using the Plum Pudding model, an out dated and incorrect model, and we would have less of an understanding of how atoms form the world around us.

Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most important scientists in history with Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Galileo. He was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643 and died March 31, 1727 in London, England. During his lifetime Newton discovered and invented many things, while also studying lots of classic philosophers and astronomers. Newton’s wide range of discoveries formed the basis for modern physics. Not only did he give us the three laws of motion, but he also gave us the origins of color and calculus. These discoveries play big roles in our world today.

By the age of ten he becomes so fascinated by the world of science he self-educates himself to learn as much as possible. Albert then went to a secondary school in Switzerland. Albert felt that the academics and education were not satisfying enough so he started cutting his classes and used all his free time to learn about physics. He had learned