Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand and moved to England. Marie Curie moved from Poland to France. Albert Einstein was born in Germany but ended his days in the U.S. More recently, Ahmed Zewail transferred from Egypt to the U.S., and Fraser Stoddart from Scotland to the U.S. Mobility is the theme of a couple of studies that were published in Nature during Nobel week that I’d like to bring to your attention.
by Bibiana Campos Seijo | October 16, 2017
Ernest J. Baca Edinburg, Texas Jerold Oscar Bahls Fridley, Minn. George Bakale Cleveland Heights, Ohio Richard Anthony Baldwin Ocean View, Del. P. W. Banda San Mateo, Calif. Gene Banucci Scottsdale, Ariz. Krishna C. Baranwal Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Kenneth Leroy Barker Zanesville, Ohio Donald George Barnes Alexandria, Va.
by Manny I. Fox Morone | February 27, 2017
Ernest Rutherford is the laureate who won the prize farthest from his birthplace, Nelson, New Zealand. Rutherford won the 1908 prize—for exposing fundamentals of radioactivity—while at Victoria University in Manchester, England, more than 18,000 km from Nelson. Fourteen laureates won the prize within 10 km of where they were born.
by Matt Davenport | September 19, 2016
East Rutherford, N.J. William Barlen Allentown, N.J. Fred Barlow St. Simons Island, Ga. Kenneth Herbert Barratt Green Valley, Ariz. Duane Eldon Bartak Cheney, Kan. Franklin Ellwood Barton II Bogart, Ga. David L. Bates Monroeville, Pa. Nicky Ray Baumgartner Cleveland Bradley Leonard Beach Lexington, Ky.
May 26, 2014
Also, Kauffman says that Frederick Soddy and Ernest Rutherford predicted that helium should be “the decay product of radium-88.” The actual story is this: In the uranium-238 decay series, radium-226 is produced and then decays by giving off an α-particle (He nucleus). However, during the decay series of thorium-232, two isotopes of radium are formed: radium-228, which decays by β-(negative electron) emission, and radium-224, which decays by α-emission.
March 10, 2014
At McGill, he worked on radioactivity with New Zealand-born British physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics and a future (1908) Nobel Laureate in chemistry. At the time, radioactivity was poorly understood, but Soddy and Rutherford realized that the phenomenon was caused by the decay of elements into other elements with simultaneous emission of α-, β-, and γ-radiation.
by George B. Kauffman | December 02, 2013
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by Linda Wang | November 11, 2013
Bohr took Ernest Rutherford’s 1911 planetary model of an atom and coupled it with Max Planck’s 1900 theory on quantization of radiation to provide a model of the atom in which negatively charged electrons circle around a positively charged nucleus in discrete energy levels, or orbitals. It took Erwin Schrödinger’s wave equation in 1926, part of the then-new field of quantum mechanics, which describes the laws of motion of elementary particles, to work out the final details of how electrons behave in atoms.
by Stephen K. Ritter | September 09, 2013
Strike a pose: Ernest Rutherford (from left), Niels Bohr, and Marie Curie show their nonemotional sides. Shutterstock Wikimedia Commons This is a photo of a sand castle. Black and white portraits of Rutherford, Bohr, and Curie. sand castle water sand ratio water people Turning The Right Cheek, Sand Castle Building Tips Chemical & Engineering News Turning The Right Cheek, Sand Castle Building Tips Turning The Right Cheek, Sand Castle Building Tips
by Emily Bones | August 20, 2012
In the next four chapters, he discusses the discovery of the rare gases and the role of helium in meteoritic research, determining the age of Earth, radioactive dating, and Ernest Rutherford’s scattering experiments that led to the Bohr nuclear atom. Fisher doesn’t shy away from controversial topics.
by George B. Kauffman | July 23, 2012