Hello bloggers,
Many people have sacrificed their things to help other people. For example Florence Nightgale and Marie Curie have done so. Florence Nightgale was born in 1820 in England. As she grew up she trained as a registered nurse. After that she went to the army to wound any accidents. She realised that the hospitals there were covered in a thick blanket of dirtyness. Suprisingly she used her own money to clean up this hospital and make it a more comfortable place to be. Marie Curie on the other hand found out new things that to this day still help us. She was the first person to use a X-ray and she found out a new chemichal. The new chemichal was radioactivity. She was awarded two nobel prizes. If you don't know what a nobel prize is go and check out week 3 day 2 activity 1 and 2. I explained what the nobel prize is. You may think that she was really succesful, but together her whole family has earned 5 nobel prizes! That is a lot. She later died because she used to carry radioactivity in her pocket. Anyway, for this activity I was asked to look at a list of nobel prize winners and then talk about one of them. So here is the explanation.
Ernest Rutherford was born in 1871 in New Zealand. Once Marie Curie had found out radioactivity that lead into deeper investegations. In 1902 he was busy playig with atoms when suddenly he saw something weird. Some of the atoms were moving. This proved that atoms look like something else. This changed a lot of things. In 1908 he was awarded the nobel prize for chemistry and was posted on the 100$ bank note of New Zealand.
I hope you enjoyed my blog post. If you have any feedback please leave it in the comments. Do you want to be a scientist? BYE!!
Hi again Vitaraag,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post about Ernest Rutherford, I found your facts interesting, especially that he was born in NZ. He was an incredibly clever man, wasn’t he! Did you know that he was the first person ever from Oceania to win a Nobel prize?! What an achievement.
It would be good to see a bit more detail in this post - such as what specific things did Mr Rutherford’s work change and impact? You can just post it in the comments below :)
Thanks for posting,
Eliza :)
Hello Eliza,
DeleteI am here to list some of the further things that happened with Ernest Rutherford. Before Ernest Rutherford did this there was a different model for atoms. (Atoms are one of the smallest things in the universe). It was called the plum pudding model. The plum pudding model was basically where all the electrons are bunched up. If Ernest Rutherford was playing with particles and he saw them moving, how is that possible you may ask. Well this just proves that instead of the electrons being inside they are actually revolving around something called the nucleus. Further investigations showed that there are also things called protons and neutrons in atoms. The nucleus is made out of protons and neutrons. There is something called the periodic table which consists of all the elements in the world. There atomic number is the equivalent to how many electrons are spinning around the nucleus. There is my writing in further detail. Also I did not search any of this up. I think it was like 2 years ago my dad taught me this stuff. Thank you for telling me I didn't have enough detail.
Vitaraag
DeleteAta Mārie Vitaraag, thanks for your response!
Wow that is an amazing answer, thank you so much for sharing this knowledge with me! It’s so cool that your Dad shared it with you in the first place, does he work as a scientist or is he just interested in this stuff? When you go to intermediate this year you may be able to take science at a subject! I’m sure you’ll be fantastic at it.
I did science for one year at high school but it was a mix of chemistry, physics, and biology. Biology was my favourite but the other two subjects went completely over my head! My brain is more wired for english-based subjects I think. I do remember learning about the periodic table though!
What is your favourite science subject to read and learn about?
Thanks for this fantastic answer Vitaraag, I learnt heaps!
Eliza :)
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ReplyDeleteHi Vitaraag,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you explained who Sir Ernest Rutherford was, what he did and how he came to find his discovery with lots of detail, I also liked how you said that he was playing with atoms when he found the nucleus of an atom. Do you think you could discover something huge like he did?