Ernest_Rutherford4



**__ Education/Awards __** (Rutherfords' Homepage)
 * He first attended state schools, then went off to Canterbury College, where he was exposed to a liberal education.
 * From 1890 to 1894 Ernest attended Canterbury College.
 * In 1892 he passed BA in Pure Mathematics and Latin Applied Mathematics, English, French and Physics.
 * He won the one Senior Scholarships in Mathematics in New Zealand.
 * Then he returned for another year and took mathematics and physics.
 * In 1893 he obtained a Master of Arts degree with double first class honors and continued research work at the college
 * Then he received a B.Sc degree in 1894
 * The same year he got a scholarship to attend Trinity college as a research student under J.J Thomson
 * He studied radioactivity.
 * In 1897 he was awarded the B.A. Research Degree and the Coutts-Trotter Studentship of Trinity College
 * Rutherford returned to England in 1907 to become Langworthy Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester.
 * At Manchester, Rutherford continued his research on the properties of the radium emanation and of the alpha rays.
 * With H. Geiger, a method of detecting a single alpha particle and counting the number emitted from radium was devised.