August 31, 1871- October 19, 1937 Rutherford attended the University of New Zealand for his double first in Math and Physical Sciences and his B.Sc. degree. He then moved on to Trinity College as a research student under JJ Thomson for his B.A. research degree.
Rutherford performed his famous gold foil experiment and found that most of the mass of an atom was found in the small positive nucleus and the rest was mostly empty space.
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908
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| Rutherford's model of the atom |
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