Ernest Rutherford Biography

About him

Ernest Rutherford famous physicist and inventor. Many know him for splitting the atom. He was born on August 30 1871 in Brightwater New Zealand. On a spring day, October 19 1937 Ernest Rutherford went to hospital for surgery but sadly died to surgical complications. He is still a well known inventor and scientist.

Early life

Ernest Rutherford was an only child. His dad was a farmer and his mum worked at a local primary school.          That is where he went to school at a young age. When he was a teenager he went to Havelock High, after the first year there he won a scholarship to Canterbury College due to his smarts. At Canterbury College he got in the second’s rugby team as his winter sport.

Education

Ernest Rutherford was always at the top of his classes. He was training to be a physicist but later on while studying he took an interested at atoms and their properties. After finishing school he had a dream, to be first first man to split the atom.

Splitting the atom

After graduation he started his task of splitting the atom. This was a very hard task because it was very small and fragile. He had to find the properties of the atom, study them and then split it. When to split the atom the world went crazy over his discovery, he had brought a vast source of energy to the world.

Quotes

Science is either physics or a stamp collection.

By Oliver