Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand. Rutherford started college young at the age of sixteen he attended Nelson Collegiate School. When he was nineteen he was awarded the university scholarship and went on to the University of New Zealand where he studied mathematics and physical science. He continued with research work at the University until he received an 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship to Trinity College as a research student under J.J. Thomson. After this hr filled The Macdonald Chair of Physics post at McGill University.
Rutherford's first researches in New Zealand had to do with the magnetic properties of iron exposed to high-frequency oscillations; his thesis was Magnetization of Iron by High-Frequency Discharges. Rutherford was one of the first to design original experiments with high-frequency, alternating currents. His second paper, Magnetic Viscosity, was published in the transactions of the New Zealand Institute and contains a ...