Ernest Rutherford: An Honorable Person

The definition of honor is to regard with great respect and high esteem. My view of honor is respectfulness towards others, and putting others before you. I believe that an honorable person is Ernest Rutherford because of his important scientific contributions in the early 20th Century. Some of the things he did in order to become such an honorable person was by receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, and being knighted in 1914 (Ernest Rutherford). Ernest Rutherford was known as the “Father of the Nuclear Age” (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). He was called this because of his study of radioactivity, later leading to the exploration of nuclear physics (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). A pioneer of nuclear physics and the first to split the atom, Earnest Rutherford was a brilliant scientist and majorly contributed to today’s modern science. In 1895, Rutherford identified a simpler and more commercially viable means of detecting radio waves (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). At McGill University, Rutherford discovered radon (Ernest Rutherford - Scientist Supreme).
Later, he began focusing on uranium. Rutherford discovered that placing it near foil resulted in one type of radiation being easily blocked, while a different type had no trouble …show more content…
Soon after, in 1907, Rutherford moved back to England, and it was there where he discovered that nearly the total mass of an atom is concentrated in the nucleus (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). After his discovery, he created the nuclear model, later leading the way to the invention of the atomic bomb (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). It was because of this discovery that Rutherford became known as the “Father of the Nuclear Age” (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television