Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford and Charles Galton Darwin.
| Nummer | B249 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford and Charles Galton Darwin in Brussels. |
| Bemærkning | Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) was born in Nelson, New Zealand. He graduated from the University of New Zealand, Wellington in 1893 with a double first in Mathematics and Physical Science. In 1894, he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship, enabling him to go to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory under J.J. Thomson.
In 1907 he became Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester. Rutherford researched the properties of radium emanation and of alpha rays and, in conjunction with H. Geiger, a method of detecting a single alpha particle and counting the number emitted from radium was devised. In 1910, his investigations into the scattering of alpha rays and the nature of the inner structure of the atom which caused such scattering led to the postulation of his concept of the “nucleus”, his greatest contribution to physics. According to him practically the whole mass of the atom and at the same time all positive charge of the atom is concentrated in a minute space at the centre. In 1912 Niels Bohr joined him at Manchester and he adapted Rutherford’s nuclear structure to Max Planck‘s quantum theory and so obtained his theory of atomic structure. An inspiring leader of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge from 1919, he steered numerous future Nobel Prize winners towards their achievements. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908. Charles Galton Darwin (1887 - 1962), grandson of Charles Robert Darwin the author of "On the origin of the species" was a physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. OLDb081 |
| Årstal | 1933 |
| Dateringsnote | The picture is taken during the 1933 Solvay Conference.
The Solvay Conferences (French: Conseils Solvay) are devoted to outstanding open problems in both physics and chemistry. They are still held every 3 years in Brussels Belgium. |
| Fotograf | Ukendt |
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| Arkiv | Niels Bohr Archive |
