#ernest rutherford

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Rutherfordium is named after Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the half-life in radioactive elements. It's synthesized by bombarding plutonium with neon ions or californium with carbon ions.

[imkeepinit]

Rutherford and Bohr describe atomic structure

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Dead physicist blunt rotation

Bohr-Newton-Fineman-Hawking

Fineman-Openheimer-Maxwell-Heisenberg

Einstein-Pauli-Bohr-Heisenberg

Hawking-Oppenheimer-Dirac-Kurchatov

Maxwell-Rutherford-Einstein-Pauli

Newton-Rutherford-Kurchatov-Dirac

Voting ended onMar 9, 2023

[lindahall]

Ernest Rutherford – Scientist of the Day

Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist working in Canada and England, was born Aug. 30, 1871.   

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Round 1.2: Oganesson (118) vs. Rutherfordium (104)

Oganesson (118)

Oganesson is an extremely radioactive, short-lived, superheavy element named for the still living nuclear physicist, Yuri Oganessian. A synthetic element, it has the highest atomic number of any discovered element and is technically a noble gas. With no research done on actual samples due to difficulty of production (only 6 or 7 atoms total ever), researchers still dispute whether it would be a solid or a gas in standard conditions, although solid appears to be the current consensus.

Rutherfordium (104)

Rutherfordium is a radioactive, short-lived, superheavy element named for the so-called father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford. Most likely acting as a heavier homolog to Hafnium, Rutherfordium has had little research done on it.

Which Element is More Fuckable?

Oganesson (118)

Rutherfordium (104)

Voting ended onJun 7, 2023

pick an old man to fuck

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In 1910, Ernest Rutherford put a piece of glowing radium in a lead box with a minuscule hole. A tiny beam of radiation emerged from the hole, aimed at a thin sheet of gold. It was expected that the atoms of gold would absorb the radiation. To his shock, he found that the beam from the radium went right through the sheet, as if it weren’t there.

This was an astonishing result: it meant that atoms were composed primarily of empty space. We sometimes demonstrate this to students. We put a piece of harmless uranium in their hand and a Geiger counter beneath it, which can detect radiation. Students are shocked to hear the Geiger counter clicking away because their body is hollow.

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku

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Ernest Rutherford (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937)