Ernest+Rutherford

Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. Ernest received his early education in Government schools and at the age of 16 entered Nelson Collegiate School. In 1889 he was awarded a University scholarship and he proceeded to the University of New Zealand, Wellington, where he entered Canterbury College. He graduated M.A. in 1893 and he continued with research work at the College for a short time, receiving the B.Sc. degree the following year. That same year, 1894, he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship, enabling him to go to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a research student. In 1897 he was awarded the B.A. Research Degree and the Coutts-Trotter Studentship of Trinity College. An opportunity came when the Macdonald Chair of Physics at McGill University, Montreal, became vacant, and in 1898 he left for Canada to take up the post.
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** Model Explanation: ** His model is the planetary model of the atom which put all the protons in the nucleus and the electrons orbited around the nucleus like planets around the sun.


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Note: The protons are the red spheres in the nucleus.

** Positives: ** Contains most of the basics, and is simple. ** Negatives: ** It does not include neutrons, and has the electrons circling in a specific path.