• Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in the

village of Brightwater in the South Island of New Zealand.

His father, James Rutherford, was a farmer in Scotland,
and his mother, Martha Thompson, was a teacher in

England. He studied at Havelock School and then Nelson

College and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury
College . In 1893 he graduated with first-class honors in
both mathematics and physical sciences. He won a
scholarship abroad and decided to go to Cambridge
University in the United Kingdom to work in the laboratory
of J. J. Thomson. Ernest Rutherford is the father of nuclear
chemistry and nuclear physics. He discovered and named
the atomic nucleus, the proton, the alpha particle and the

beta particle. In 1898, Rutherford and Frederick Soddy

have been studying uranium radiation. They discovered
two different types of radiation, which they called alpha
and beta. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in
1908. Rutherford identified the new source - the energy
released by the radioactive decay of the elements..
Rutherford made the first deliberate transformation of
one element into another. In 1919, it transformed
nitrogen atoms into oxygen atoms, bombarding nitrogen

with alpha particles. Rutherford is considered one of the

greatest scientists in history. In conclusion, I can say that
Rutherford made a huge discovery in nuclear physics. His
discoveries has a lot of pluses and minuses for example:
the discovery of the atomic nucleus has influenced
scientists in the future to create nuclear power plants that
supply the state with electricity, and a minus of its findings
is that humans used the information it deduced to create
atomic missiles that, when used, can cause worldwide
damage.