I decided to write about Ernest Rutherford.
Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. He was born in Brightwater, Tasman District, New Zealand, in August 30, 1817. Before his death, Rutherford had a small hernia, which he had neglected to have fixed, and it became strangulated, causing him to be violently ill, finally he died in Cambridge, England, UK, in 19 October, 1937.
After his death in 1937, he was honoured by being interred with the greatest scientists of the United Kingdom, near Sir Isaac Newton's tomb in Westminster Abbey.
Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity involved the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another, and also differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation. He was awarded in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances", for which he was the first Canadian and Oceanian Nobel.
I don’t know if it’s okay say that I like him, it’s just that everything about radiation seems interesting to me, and I had to choose someone related with my field, so here it’s.

Rutherford and his contributions for science were soooo important to the chemistry that we know today... Great post isa :)
ReplyDeleteGood decision! He contributed too much to science (:
ReplyDeleteI think that this topic for the blog was -not- very fun to do :/
ReplyDeleteI know your feeling, hahaha
A classic for chemistry hahaha
ReplyDeleteWell you like what he did maybe you are right you like what he did and maybe you like him too
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