where was he from?
Hornchurch, Essex, England
Ernest Rutherford
Hornchurch, Essex, England
who came up with the theory of continuous matter Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers Leucippus and his pupil Democritus what is atomic theory? It is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. who discovered the nucleus? Ernest Rutherford what was his profession? Physicist
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Ernest Rutherford [SEP] Early life and education
Ernest Rutherford was the son of James Rutherford, a farmer, and his wife Martha Thompson, originally from Hornchurch, Essex, England. James had emigrated to New Zealand from Perth, Scotland, "to raise a little flax and a lot of children". Ernest was born at Brightwater, near Nelson, New Zealand. His first name was mistakenly spelled 'Earnest' when his birth was registered. Rutherford's mother Martha Thompson was a schoolteacher. He studied at Havelock School and then Nelson College and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, where he participated in the debating society and played rugby. After gaining his BA, MA and BSc, and doing two years of research during which he invented a new form of radio receiver, in 1895 Rutherford was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, to travel to England for postgraduate study at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.