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Born
Born in Brightwater, New Zealand -
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The move to Foxhill
In 1876 the Rutherford family moved to Foxhill, and Ernest was given his first science book at the school there, when he was 10 years old. -
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mounta -
The scholarship
In 1877, while at school in Havelock, Rutherford won a scholarship to Nelson College. -
Bicycle club
1878 Feb 11th - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms -
Arc light
1879 Feb 10th - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater) -
The Panama
Building of Panama Canal, begins -
Alcoholic prohibited
Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages -
Lit up
1st district lit by electricity -
NY & Chicago
1st telephone call between NY & Chicago -
Dow Jones
Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg -
IOWA
1885 Jan 4th - Dr William W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy -
Indian War
Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war -
Labor Day
Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday -
electric automoblie
Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile -
1st Computer patented
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John Owens
1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens) -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison patents motion picture camra -
Ballin
1st basketball game played -
Time for a movie
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ -
Labor Day
Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday -
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time in collage
was a student at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge -
Cuban war
Cuban war for independence begins -
1st X-ray
1st X-ray photo in US -
The sart of some thing new
1st football game between black colleges - Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0 -
Spanish_American War
Spanish-American War begins -
Cuba
Cuba liberated from Spain by US -
Married Mary
In 1900 he married Mary Georgina Newton -
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Joined at McGill by Frederick Soddy
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The only child
Their only child, Eileen, was born in 1901. -
The Rumford medal
Won the Rumford Medal -
Became a professor
In 1907 to become Langworthy Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester -
Won nobel prize in chemistry
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The gold foil expiment
In 1909, two researchers in Ernest Rutherford's laboratory at the University of Manchester, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, fired a beam of alpha particles at a thin metal foil. Alpha particles had been identified and named (they were called "alpha rays" to begin with) a decade earlier by Rutherford, as one of the types of radiation given off by radioactive elements such as uranium. Being fast-moving and positively charged (they're now known to be high-speed helium nuclei), Rutherford reasoned t -
Elliott Cresson
Won the Elliott Cresson Medal -
Rutherford model of the atom
Theorized that atoms have thier positive charge concentrated in very small nucleus. -
Matteucci Medal
Won the Matteucci Medal -
Becoming a knight
He was knighted in 1914 -
Hector Memorial Medal
In 1916 he was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal -
First splting of an atom
He is widely credited with first "splitting the atom" in 1917 -
Made world's first artificial nuclear reaction
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Copley Medal
Won the Copley Medal -
Franklin Medal
Won the Franklin Medal -
The Rutherford's theory of neutrons
Rutherford's theory of neutrons was proved in 1932 by his associate James Chadwick, who recognized neutrons immediately when they were produced by other scientists and later himself, in bombarding beryllium with alpha particles. In 1935, Chadwick was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery -
Proved existence
He proved existence of the nucleus and that it is made up of protons and neutrons -
Day of death
Died in Cambridge, England & His ashes were buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey, just west of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and by that of Lord Kelvin. -
Element name after him
The chemical element rutherfordium (element 104) was named after him in 1997.
