Sunday, March 22, 2009
Rutherford is best known for devising the names alpha,beta,and gamma rays to classify various forms of "rays" which were poorly understood at his time. Rutherford deflected alpha rays with both electric and magnetic fields in 1903. He also observed that the intensity of radioactivity fell off with time, and named the halving time the "half-life."
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