Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
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Studied at McGill University in Montreal
Discovered radioactivity involved emission of 2 kinds of particles, alpha and beta.
Discovered that an atom contained a small highly dense positively charged center, known as the nucleus.
Graphic by Eric Hamber Secondary