While a researcher at McGill University, he blew smoke from a cigar and observed the effect on an ionization chamber, thus laying the foundation for future smoke detectors. Assisted by Harriet Brookes, he discovered Radon, and he was the first to name the alpha, beta, and gamma forms of radiation. For his determination that an alpha particle was eq
While a researcher at McGill University, he blew smoke from a cigar and observed the effect on an ionization chamber, thus laying the foundation for future smoke detectors. Assisted by Harriet Brookes, he discovered Radon, and he was the first to name the alpha, beta, and gamma forms of radiation. For his determination that an alpha particle was equivalent to the atom of a Helium nucleus, he won the 1908 Nobel in Chemistry, prompting him to say that the fastest transformation he knew of was his transformation from a physicist to a chemist. FTP, identify this physicist perhaps best known for his gold foil experiment.
While a researcher at McGill University, he blew smoke from a cigar and observed the effect on an ionization chamber, thus laying the foundation for future smoke detectors.
Lord Ernest Rutherford of Nelson