Part one of term paper
Ernest Rutherford was born at Bridgewater, close to Nelson, New Zealand. His parents had emigrated to New Zealand from Britain approximately 30 years earlier. Rutherford was a successful all-round student at school, though did not show any real interest in science. He entered Canterbury College at Christchurch, where his interest and abilit ...

Part two of term paper
... out postgraduate research under J.J. Thomson. Rutherford abandoned work on his radio wave detector and carried out experiments on the conductivity of gas ionised by X-ray radiation. In 1897 He started to carry out research involving the conductivity of gases ionised by radiation, and by doing so became very aquainted with experimental methods involved in carrying out work with radioactivity. At the age of 28 Rutherford took up the position of professor at the University of McGill in Montreal, ...