Rutherford's Quest For Intellectual Growth

In his childhood because of the way that his parents were he had the opportunity to have good education and took advantage of it. The effortlessness of a science book he got when he was ten may have been what inspired him and what nourished his longing for to learn more. His best subjects were always math and physics. I believe that the support Ernest got for intellectual growth was from his parents is the thing that contributed the most to his study of the atom, and other later accomplishments. Another part of Rutherford's life that may have influenced his interest for the atom is the way that he worked as a research student under JJ Thomson. His work on the molecule Rutherford preformed an experiment that disproved his tutor, JJ Thomson's plum-pudding model. This experiment had to do with alpha particles and what made them diffuse into different directions sometimes. …show more content…
He also proposed that atoms contain a cloud of electrons that orbit around the nucleus, and that most of the atom is empty space. During his time he was the scientist that knew the most and had most greatly contributed (with experiments) to the atomic theory of that time. Contribution to the modern atomic theory the modern atomic theory states that most of an atom is empty space, an atom consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by electrons, atoms contain subatomic particles, and the nucleus contains only protons and neutrons. Rutherford's ideas are present all throughout today's atomic model. The scientist that told us “Most of an atom is empty space” was Rutherford. He was also the one who suggested that electrons move in clouds. Though it being somewhat right, the way electrons move were incorrect and proven by other scientists like Bohr, Schrodinger, and