1) Elements are made atoms.
2) Atoms of an element are identical in size etc
3) Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed.
4) Different Atoms combine to form compounds
5) In chem reactions, atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged.

– received his early education from his father and from Quaker John Fletcher, who ran a private school at Pardshaw Hall.

– Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935

– discovered the neutron using evidence collected by Irene Joliot-Curie in 1932

– graduated from Victoria University of Manchester (studied under Rutherford
– University of Cambridge (earned Doctor of Philosophy degree)

-Received a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908 for work on radioactive substances and disintegration of elements

-Discovered alpha/beta rays, radioactive half life
-Used the gold foil experiment to predict the presence of a nucleus (a dense positive centre) in an atom.

-Studied at, Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, and University of Cambridge alongside with J.J. Thompson.

-Saint Petersburg State University and Heidelberg University