What school did Ernest Rutherford attend? How far has he gone in his education? Why? Ernest received his early education in state schools. At the age of 16 he showed great talent so he entered Nelson Collegiate School. In 1889 he was awarded a university scholarship to the University of New Zealand, Wellington. In 1894 he was awarded a scientific scholarship for the 1851 exhibition, which allowed him to go to Trinity College, Cambridge. Ernest is believed to have received more scholarships than any other chemist. Who was Ernest's family? What did they do? Ernest was born on 30 August 1871 in New Zealand he was the 4th child in a family of 7 boys and 5 girls. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, emigrated to New Zealand with his entire family in 1842. Ernest's mother, Née Martha Thompson, an English teacher, came to live there with her widowed mother in 1855. What work did Ernest do before to discover nuclear physics? Ernest worked hard before discovering that atomic theory made a big name for itself. Ernest went to England in 1907 to become Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester. In 1919 he accepted an invitation to succeed Sir Joseph Thomson as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. He also became Chairman of the Advisory Council, Her Majesty's Government, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. He became Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution, London; and the director of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge. What awards has Ernest won for his work? Rutherford received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 before his gold foil experiment. He was knighted in the 1914 New Year Honors List. He became a member of the Order of Merit (Civ...... middle of paper ...... scattered together as the plum pudding pattern suggested. This understanding gave This model of the atom is widely accepted and used as the basic atomic model. It is used very commonly in the early teachings of the atom of atoms many technologies used very commonly today would cease to exist. How has technology changed due to the understanding of atoms? Since the understanding of atomic technology went from the cathode ray tube to the invention of television Since then the cathode ray tube has been used in everyone's monitors Including the one you are seeing it on now. From this X-rays were discovered , X-ray telescopes, X-ray machines, CT scanner, crystallography, which led to the understanding of DNA..