Ernest Rutherford Biography

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Rutherford is famous for discovering the nucleus, but before that he discovered alpha and beta radiation, that elements can decay into other elements, the half-life and more. I used personal letters and some of his many papers to tell his amazing story. Check it out!
Did Rutherford say, "All Science is Physics or Stamp Collecting?"
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  • @marcowen1506
    @marcowen15062 жыл бұрын

    Manchester University remembers Rutherford to this day: the buildings he worked in are still standing, and his picture graces several other buildings as a reminder that you don't have to be Cambridge to do science. One of his laboratories is so radioactive that to this day that corner of the building is sealed off, making finding your lecture theatre quite difficult. I've heard one academic respond to students complaining about the detour say "you should email Professor Rutherford about it".

  • @Xyper1231
    @Xyper12313 жыл бұрын

    These videos are really incredible. Here we have Rutherford whose circumstances could easily askew him towards a different path. It's frightening to imagine all the discoveries we would have never known without his brilliance. I feel so genuinely happy he had enough perseverance to face all that life threw at him, and of course also extremely thankful to all those who helped him.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rutherford is one of my all time favorites. I’m hoping I can convince some New Zealanders to have me go there and talk about how great he is.

  • @geoh7777

    @geoh7777

    2 жыл бұрын

    "It's frightening to imagine all the discoveries we would have never known without his brilliance." It's frightening to imagine these discoveries would not have eventually been made by other researchers.

  • @Skrajne_centrum
    @Skrajne_centrum2 жыл бұрын

    As a Pole I want to thank you that at least in the begining you name Marii by her full surname Skłodowska-Curie and no as just Curie or as many peoples even in Poland say Curie-Skłodowska, cause Skłodowska was her first (Polish) surname and Curie was taken from her French husband. Also I want to thanks for that in so short material you mention that she was Polish. Btw im starting to be your fan, I found your Chanel yesterday and starter subscribing after episode of Nicola Tesla whitch was fantastic! For now I can assume that your materials are very thoroughly checked. You have my respect. P.s. sorry for my english.

  • @gpwgpw555

    @gpwgpw555

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was born and raised in Oklahoma, and I am sorry for my english to.

  • @serwijenbergh1154
    @serwijenbergh11542 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kathy, being an electrical engineer and qualified as radiation specialist, I do like your video's a lot and do apreciate how you can explain the history behind all the knowledge we currently have in these field... In the past I did work, in Europe, for the AccuRay company based in Columbus OH (radioactivity based, industrial weight measurement and automation of these processes) and have my own electrical company since 2010 in this and other fields

  • @robertgoss4842
    @robertgoss48422 жыл бұрын

    Great biography. Rutherford is one of my two favorite scientists. The other is James Clerk Maxwell. May I say that your programs surpass about 98.72% of YT offerings, because you bring a quantity and depth of information few others can approach. Nice work.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Rutherford is one of my favorite scientists too (by the way, did you see my video on Maxwell?). Glad you liked it.

  • @tonybrumfield2925

    @tonybrumfield2925

    2 жыл бұрын

    What is YT?

  • @robertgoss4842

    @robertgoss4842

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seriously? I will assume you aren't poking fun and tell you it's You Tube.

  • @rickhole
    @rickhole2 жыл бұрын

    In the 1980s I taught electronics technology in what is now called Ferris State University , Big Rapids, Michigan. I wanted to bring some of the history of the pioneers into the students awareness. I never did have time to do the research. Your work fills what I had in mind and overflows the pot. Thanks. I am watching the playlist for several hours today as I do the preparation for an unpleasant medical procedure tomorrow. Thanks also for giving me something better to think about.

  • @JohnSmith-vs2ri
    @JohnSmith-vs2ri2 жыл бұрын

    As a physics teacher, I can confirm that this is the best resource I've ever had to inspire my students. I was raised on Asimov's guide to the physical sciences and this is every bit as invigorating for me and helps me connect the science discovery pathway and the personalities involved for my students.

  • @danmulholland8580

    @danmulholland8580

    2 ай бұрын

    Lucky to be raised on such a great book! School science is usually just memorising facts and formulas without learning the history which is a shame as it shows you how real scientists think and work, not to mention the role of serendipity. It also captures the feeling of excitement and discovery

  • @aamontalto
    @aamontalto Жыл бұрын

    These were mind-spinning times! Your accounts of the history of the discovery of radioactivity, the atoms and sub-atomic particles are making me relive the giddy times of when I first discovered the subject when reading physics as a 15 year old.

  • @MitzvosGolem1
    @MitzvosGolem15 жыл бұрын

    Cool show. I am a physics fan retired from Fermilab. Excellent.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    5 жыл бұрын

    SovietRefusnik1 Golem so glad you liked it

  • @ronjon7942
    @ronjon7942 Жыл бұрын

    “Ready?” Yep. “Let’s GO!” Ha, Yes! Love this channel.

  • @turkfiles
    @turkfiles2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Kathy. You are a wonderful teacher! Your ability to make all of your topics very interesting and easily understood is truly enjoyable. Looking forward to more…

  • @johnjkiwi7818
    @johnjkiwi7818 Жыл бұрын

    Lord Rutherford is a New Zealand national hero. His image is immortalised on New Zealand's one hundred dollar bank note. Many thanks Kathy for your biography on one of our greatest New Zealanders.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    Жыл бұрын

    You have every reason to be proud of Rutherford. I’m so glad you feel like I did him justice in this little video (there is a part two as well and eventually someday I have to do a part three).

  • @witepete6283

    @witepete6283

    Жыл бұрын

    @Kathy Loves Physics & History You are a great teacher and master of the video/media resources. I love all your lessons. They are mesmerizing!

  • @bagoquarks
    @bagoquarks2 жыл бұрын

    Radon is a plague in Eastern Pennsylvania as it occurs naturally in the soil in some areas. This was discovered by accident when a power company employee set off detectors ENTERING a nuclear facility. That is, a safety protocol designed to detect contamination INSIDE a nuclear plant revealed that the employee had been contaminated at his own home. It was accumulating in the employee's basement by seeping through walls. Now it is standard practice to have a radon test done as a condition of home sale - an expensive but necessary nuisance. Thanks for this great series of science history lessons.

  • @danmulholland8580
    @danmulholland85802 ай бұрын

    Excellent video! I’m glad I found this channel

  • @anthonynicoli
    @anthonynicoli2 жыл бұрын

    I love your enthusiasm for the history of physics!

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @MrCharlyAndy
    @MrCharlyAndy11 ай бұрын

    Kathy. Thanks for your hard work and your fascinating videos.

  • @hastar72
    @hastar725 жыл бұрын

    Good job Kathy, keep them coming :-)

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eddie Hanley thanks Eddie, will do

  • @RutherfordGeorge
    @RutherfordGeorge2 жыл бұрын

    Kathy thanks for your great videos and your infectious enthusiasm for science. Heres hoping some youngsters will study sciences because of your channel. Keep up the good work! George E Rutherford.

  • @macbookpro1232
    @macbookpro1232 Жыл бұрын

    wow... simply breathtaking. Thanks Katty

  • @davidbrooks8621
    @davidbrooks86212 жыл бұрын

    Your lectures are very fascinating, you are wonderful, full of energy and with a very broad knowledge and of course beautiful.

  • @lenl2514
    @lenl25142 жыл бұрын

    Kathy- I love your episodes! Your new title, “The Lightning Tamers”, reminds me of one of my favorite books, “Dealers of Lightning- XEROX PARC and the dawn of the computer age”. At some point in the book I believe author Michael Hiltzik writes ‘lightning flew from their fingertips’ or something similar denoting how ideas flew around the lab. I approve of your new title and look forward to each new episode

  • @maxbomo
    @maxbomo2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Kathy. Glad i found your channel. Very, very interisting. Bye from Chile

  • @p51amustang
    @p51amustang Жыл бұрын

    Amazing, Kathy.

  • @danvladoiu9365
    @danvladoiu93652 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for doing the biographical work that some of us are too lazy to do! Keep it up Kathy!

  • @itsevilbert
    @itsevilbert5 жыл бұрын

    By mentioning John Townsend without actually saying why (I'm guessing you had to trim the video), I needed to lookup John Sealy Townsend, to workout why ( "Townsend discharge" AKA "avalanche multiplication" ), so no Geiger-Müller tube without their contribution. And also Scintillation counters which use photomultiplier tubes that rely on avalanche multiplication to function. Great video as always, thank you.

  • @briandenley
    @briandenley2 жыл бұрын

    I have discovered your outstanding videos. Outstanding work! Thanks from a retired EE.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you like them

  • @robertpridmore5373
    @robertpridmore53732 жыл бұрын

    The only physics historian that I used to watch was from the University of Southern California who had 52 half hour lectures put together by Dr. David Goodstein, his wife (also with a PhD), and many others. Both Goodstein and this new discovery of these videos are helping to make my life complete! (Just kidding on the "life completeness" statement.)

  • @Hassanelnagar1
    @Hassanelnagar12 жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed your video very much ! Rutherford is one of my hero and his life story is remarkable.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Who doesn’t love Ern?

  • @bobross6802
    @bobross68022 жыл бұрын

    Well done, Kathy !!

  • @PaulMansfield
    @PaulMansfield2 жыл бұрын

    Your video really helps brings the history alive, thanks

  • @chrisgriffiths2533
    @chrisgriffiths25332 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Kathy, Another Great bit if History.

  • @cv21a
    @cv21a2 жыл бұрын

    I'm just now discovering you in January of 2022. You do a great job!

  • @Hopeless_and_Forlorn
    @Hopeless_and_Forlorn4 жыл бұрын

    The diagrams you used in this video are also in Rutherford's book, Radioactive Transformations, published in 1906 and based upon his 1905 Silliman Foundation lectures at Yale. I keep a copy of the book by my bedside. On pp 170-171, The violent disturbance in the atom resulting in the expulsion of an (alpha) particle may cause an actual breaking up of the main atom into two parts, and thus give rise to an equal number of atoms of different atomic weights in addition to the alpha particle. Thus Rutherford predicted atomic fission in 1905, years before he personally discovered the atomic nucleus, and thirty-three years before Hahn et al. discovered and named fission. Of course an alpha particle is not a neutron, but I still do not understand how so many scientists missed discovering fission for so long after Rutherford told them to look for it. What a story science makes.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hopelessand Forlorn I cannot get over how amazing and prescient Rutherford was. 10-15 papers a year and all revolutionary year after year. Just amazing. He’s one of my favorites

  • @simonstrandgaard5503
    @simonstrandgaard55035 жыл бұрын

    What a joy to watch. Really well explained.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    5 жыл бұрын

    Simon Strandgaard glad u liked it. I found Rutherford to be surprisingly delightful.

  • @shirish11
    @shirish112 жыл бұрын

    Yours is undoubtedly the best infotainment channel. Thanks. I love it.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love that term: infotainment did you make it up?

  • @shirish11

    @shirish11

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics No ma’m , I am not all that creative. It is a term commonly used on social media in India.

  • @XxxcloackndaggerxxX
    @XxxcloackndaggerxxX Жыл бұрын

    I heard this before by you sharing similar content but it doesn't matter your presence shines as always that thrills me so much I can't wait for your next presentation. Happy holidays from Adelaide South Australia🦘🇦🇺🦘

  • @ges7991
    @ges79912 жыл бұрын

    Fun and educational. Thank you for a very informative video.

  • @tonybrumfield2925
    @tonybrumfield29252 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos. I wish Physics would be taught this way. I would have found it much more interesting when I was younger.

  • @ajhnubia
    @ajhnubia2 жыл бұрын

    You pasion for these videos really impress me well done

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @bodgertime
    @bodgertime4 жыл бұрын

    Kathy, I believe Sir Earnest was insulting stamp collectors. They got him back ! His commemorative stamp has head as the nucleus. He is surrounded by orbiting, or is it oscillating electrons.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    4 жыл бұрын

    bodgertime well, he was definitely insulting stamp collectors the bigger question was whether he was insulting chemists and biologists or theoretical physicists. I’m glad that the stamp collectors got their revenge (and I say this as a huge Rutherford fan)

  • @allenjenkins7947

    @allenjenkins7947

    2 жыл бұрын

    As a physicist (retired) and someone who was a stamp and coin collector in my childhood, I firmly believe that the primary insult was aimed at chemists and more especially biologists. Put another way, stamp collecting, chemistry and biology are perfectly fine as hobbies, but not as serious professions.

  • @mntlblok

    @mntlblok

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics The way I heard it, that was why his Nobel was awarded for chemistry rather than physics. 🙂

  • @philblanc7364
    @philblanc7364 Жыл бұрын

    Another good one ! Wouldnt be the same with a computer voice or another person for that matter. Good stuff.

  • @vincentbarkley9121
    @vincentbarkley91212 жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @Brassi3
    @Brassi32 жыл бұрын

    Loved it , thank you so much!

  • @treborg777
    @treborg7772 жыл бұрын

    I love your content. Keep it up!

  • @1948DavidB
    @1948DavidB3 ай бұрын

    I'm glad to see she quickly accumulared so many subscribers . These physicits should not forgotten? EVERY one was a real person. Yes, I like hearing about their physics, also!

  • @chiprenner3800
    @chiprenner3800 Жыл бұрын

    Everlasting thanks I love that

  • @adikusmanjaya5657
    @adikusmanjaya56572 жыл бұрын

    Amazing story as always..

  • @neomonk5668
    @neomonk56682 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this excellent video, and thank you for your excellent research and presentation from a new sub. Peace

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @debyton
    @debyton2 жыл бұрын

    These wonderful historic anecdotes should be made into short (or Long) theatrical films.

  • @jojoecr7626
    @jojoecr76262 жыл бұрын

    Great channel

  • @shawnmulberry774
    @shawnmulberry7744 жыл бұрын

    Rutherford is the one who really got me interested in science when I was young. I think it was a picture in a book of that famous experiment that was not covered in this video. He also seems like he was just an all around cool dude.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shawn Mulberry I totally love Rutherford. I could make 100 videos on him.

  • @timsixteen4664
    @timsixteen46643 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for such a great lesson!!!!

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @proudsnowtiger
    @proudsnowtiger5 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff, as always. So much physics came out of Rutherford's journey... I love the way the names for all these new discoveries are just thrown off as side effects - alpha, beta - but are now universal words knon far beyondthe science community. My fave here is isotope, coined by one of Soddy's friends, Margaret Todd - not just a woman with influence in science, but a professional physician and gay to boot. That's quite the CV for those times... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Todd_(doctor)

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    5 жыл бұрын

    proudsnowtiger I totally was blown away by Rutherford! Just endless accomplishments. And it also is totally stunning to just read people nonchalantly creating the current names for scientific phenomenon. Like when Ben Franklin just said (basically) let’s call them positive and negative charges! Love the story about Margaret Todd, thanks for the link.

  • @DonaldJUnruh

    @DonaldJUnruh

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics good luck on the

  • @mntlblok

    @mntlblok

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics Have read that Ben also coined "battery" - relating to his Leyden jar arrangement. *Most* happy to have found your videos. 🙂

  • @edumation
    @edumation5 жыл бұрын

    Well narrated

  • @lg-ii6pm
    @lg-ii6pm Жыл бұрын

    What a great video- I am now a big fan of rutherford for advocating for women in general and for hiring in his lab.

  • @alanhurdle3949
    @alanhurdle3949 Жыл бұрын

    Ty, your videos are amazing, I really enjoy them, making topics crystal clear. I must apologize cause I have a mental block preventing me from learning math, and never been able to earn enough to live, just in the last ten years and that's so I can aford a basement to live in so I don't have any money I lost a chance to take a course at MIT this week cause I don't have the money but thanks to people like you I do have to give up trying to learn so ty I really live you videos

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    Жыл бұрын

    You have nothing to apologize for and I’m so glad you enjoy and learn from my channel. Don’t put yourself down for struggling with math - we all struggle with something and remember how influential and brilliant Faraday was with no math. If you feel like helping me out with out hurting your bank account it would be a great advantage if you mentioned me on social media or tell a friend of me. ❤️

  • @bodgertime
    @bodgertime4 жыл бұрын

    4:32 Marie } thanks for the physics' , Kathy

  • @Basic_concept_by-VivakSir
    @Basic_concept_by-VivakSir3 жыл бұрын

    'Sigh' the word heard many years ago in my English language prose and poetry books ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @sayedhassanphysics8491
    @sayedhassanphysics84913 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for good information and knowledge 🙏🙏🙏🙏 from Egypt ❤️❤️❤️👍

  • @dabrupro
    @dabrupro2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Thank you!

  • @martinstent5339
    @martinstent53392 жыл бұрын

    I've had the motto "We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!" on my wall for years. It's often been a great help. Haven't got the money for a powerfull microscope/telescope/spectrometer/whatever? Then think about how to solve the problem with a cheaper instrument and some cleverness to compensate!

  • @SCVIndy
    @SCVIndy Жыл бұрын

    As an engineer w basic science .. it’s great to hear the back stories of its development

  • @rayavia
    @rayavia Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. See the situation is following. I’m down with covid. It hit harder than expected. The feeling is of utter uselessness. However with your videos I learned so much ! I wasn’t without knowledge, electronics is my profession. Still the interconnections between all the people involved in this history, the intrigue, the injustice in many cases, I had no knowledge of that. Thanks. You make my useless episode worthwhile.

  • @ronjon7942

    @ronjon7942

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope you have recovered satisfactorily. Nice words, and your English is very good; also, I trust Kathy as well.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    Жыл бұрын

    Marco, I hope you’re fully recovered and I’m glad I could help you through this miserable episode feel a little bit more productive.

  • @gator1984atcomcast
    @gator1984atcomcast2 жыл бұрын

    You are a teachers teacher. Bravo.

  • @TheButlerNZ
    @TheButlerNZ2 жыл бұрын

    Im definately not an expert (but I am a Kiwi)... Maori.... Instead of saying May-Ori... Try saying Mouldy (As in mouldy bread) then try and soften the "D" a little, merging it into an "R"... You can actually get away with just saying Mouldy and you will impress New Zealanders far more than saying Mayoree (Or Mau-ree)... basically we roll the 'R' so it sounds a little like a D. (Try sticking the tip of your tongue to the top of your mouth just behind your teeth as you say the "ree" bit.) It's sort of fair to say Rutherford grew up in a nowhere place... If you look at Havelock - South Island - New Zealand, it is not much bigger than it was over 100 years ago... My most favourite museum is there (although it got upgraded a few years ago... Imagine an old church with sections enclosed in a chicken with fence full of objects tightly grouped together... You could go there 2 days in a row and still not see everything. Go to New Zealand's top museum 'Te Papa' and its huge... and seemingly empty... and you go back months later and won't find anything you missed!. Clutter can be so good.

  • @retrothink
    @retrothink2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Love the history.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro91042 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: 🇳🇿 has produced two Nobel Prize winners so far, and they both went to the same primary school in Nelson.

  • @te_piriti9220

    @te_piriti9220

    2 жыл бұрын

    Three actually and one if them didn't go to the same school! Rutherford, Maurice Wilkins (for his contribution to the unravelling of DNA) and McDiarmid.

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365
    @aniksamiurrahman63653 жыл бұрын

    All science is either physics or stamp collection. I'm a biologist and I approve this message.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    3 жыл бұрын

    I looked into that quote and I think that what Rutherford was saying was that all science is either physical or stamp collecting. Because Rutherford had great respect for chemists and biologists and geologists but he hated theoretical physicists (except for Niels Bohr). Which means any theoretical physicist who goes around quoting this is playing themselves

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365

    @aniksamiurrahman6365

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics My comment is something else though. A part of Biology today is closely related to solid state physics. But the frustration is that biology is still miles away from becoming that good. Nah, not theory, I'm talking about experiment. I don't know if in my lifetime Biology will ever become rigorous and precise like physics.

  • @richardlinter4111

    @richardlinter4111

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics : I saw this reference. also on your website. I have to say that for Bernal’s speculation (that by “Physics”, Rutherford meant “Gadgeteering”), there is no evidence whatsoever. To be sure, Bernal was an excellent scientist and wonderful writer, but his credibility was seriously dented by ill-advised political shilling for the likes of Lysenko. Furthermore, the analogy Bernal draws is very far from clear. Reading the context from "The Social Function of Science", it is hard to see how Bernal goes from a physicists’ quasi-artistic appreciation of his field to ‘gadgeteering’. I’d add that the most egregious examples in recent decades of such a mindset would surely include the casual dismissal by Luis Alvarez of those (mostly palaentologists and geologists) who criticised his declaration that the K-T extinction event was likely due to asteroid impact. This attitude of physicists, in my experience, comes largely from their complete mastery of mathematical modelling. I'll add something to this effect to the comments on your website also.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104

    @lawrencedoliveiro9104

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is a field called “biophysics”, isn’t there, which applies physical principles to living organisms. Like why you can’t have giant insects on Earth -- one reason is gravity versus the strength of their exoskeletons, another reason is a limitation of the way they breathe (which, interestingly was less of a limitation during a certain period in the deep past when the O₂ content of the atmosphere was something like 30%). Computer science and information theory are also now getting into the act, being embraced by physicists and other scientists. For example, when you look at the human optic nerve, its information bandwidth is nowhere near enough to transmit the gigapixels per second that the human retina is capturing. Therefore, there is already filtering going on, before the image ever reaches your brain.

  • @richardlinter4111

    @richardlinter4111

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lawrencedoliveiro9104 : Yes. The professor of Biophysics at my alma mater, years ago, was Charles Miles. It applies physics and strength of materials considerations to e.g. the skeletal response to trauma. But the field is very new. In particular, your insect breathing example involves Graham's law (transport speed of oxygen is much faster than carbon dioxide via spiracles, going as the reciprocal square root of the ratio of their molecular masses, which compromises pressure gradients and therefore re-oxygenation of arthropod blood). That law dates back a couple of centuries, before 'Physics' was widely in use, let alone 'Biophysics'. As far as Graham was concerned, it was all Natural Philosophy.

  • @kathieharine5982
    @kathieharine59822 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @parwezpaul8808
    @parwezpaul88085 жыл бұрын

    Good knowledge

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    5 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it.

  • @movinguniverse
    @movinguniverse3 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are extraordinary..I almost completed watching all your videos.. Great work👍👍 How are you..??? Are you going to do more videos?

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am doing very well and I am working on my next video but I’m also working on finishing a book about the history of electricity so I am a bit slow.

  • @movinguniverse

    @movinguniverse

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics All the best👍😊

  • @mastegegn538
    @mastegegn5382 жыл бұрын

    Can you do one for George Green: the green function?

  • @Basic_concept_by-VivakSir
    @Basic_concept_by-VivakSir3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for good information and knowledge 🙏🙏🙏🙏 from india.

  • @fractalnomics
    @fractalnomics2 жыл бұрын

    As a New Zealander, my favourite quote from Rutherford is what he said to Russian scientist Kapitsa, ca.1921: 'The laboratory is no place to disseminate communist propaganda.'

  • @ntatemohlomi2884
    @ntatemohlomi28842 жыл бұрын

    Always loved the stories around physics discoveries and physicists eccentricities, not so much the physics itself, no wonder I dropped out second year. Too broke to donate so there's my like and comment.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Also, you can join my email list for free the link is in my about me page

  • @trek520rider2
    @trek520rider22 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Rutherford quote: "If you can't explain it to the woman who scrubs the laboratory floor then you don't understand it."

  • @robertlivingston1634
    @robertlivingston16342 жыл бұрын

    What is it about the 19th century that produced so many brilliant minds

  • @juansanez3078
    @juansanez30782 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to use your videos in my Chemistry classes and History of Chemistry, as well; here in Brazil. By the way, our classes are in Portuguese.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    That is fantastic! I think I said it up to be open so that if you feel like adding subtitles in Portuguese you can and then anyone who eats Portuguese can read it. Please email me at kathylovesphysicsATgmail.com if I can get the script or help in anyway.

  • @gpwgpw555

    @gpwgpw555

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics What does Portuguese taste like and do you eat it with a spoon or a fork?

  • @harshjain2728
    @harshjain27282 жыл бұрын

    I did my part Cathy.

  • @Chem5724
    @Chem5724 Жыл бұрын

    What was the key for success of 19the century scientists and from where they found the key.

  • @Curiosity-NZ
    @Curiosity-NZ2 жыл бұрын

    Ernest Rutherford's original family home still stands at Brightwater, Nelson in New Zealand.

  • @davidkleinthefamousp
    @davidkleinthefamousp Жыл бұрын

    When he learned that he was excepted to the University, he is reputed to have thrown down the hole, where he was caring for potatoes, and cry out “I will never have to Farm potatoes again”. I wonder if there is a connection between potatoe farming and success in scientific design. Philo Farnsworth also conceived of television or farming potatoes.

  • @fredsacco6201
    @fredsacco62012 жыл бұрын

    Your clarity is a wonder in times of empires collapse. Truly, and you have beautiful expressive eyes. But, don't ask for money, because there isn't any

  • @andrerousseau5730
    @andrerousseau57302 жыл бұрын

    If you visit New Zealand you will find a memorial to Rutherford in Nelson. It's a circular outdoor mini-museum of sorts.

  • @stevehead365

    @stevehead365

    2 жыл бұрын

    Damn, I was in Nelson a few years back and missed it. I did find the stinky yurt.

  • @camilorivera4685
    @camilorivera46854 жыл бұрын

    That was great Kathy. I would like to ask you two aspects of the experiment: 1. I dont get how you can measure radiation with a circuit (electricity) 2. How exactly he came up with those conclusions? (5:40-5:55) I know what i´m asking might seem very basic but i dont know much about physics. Thanks for your time.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am not sure what you are asking me for #2 (could you write a separate comment clarifying) but I can answer your first question. So, radioactive materials emit a radioactive gas that is slightly conductive, so if they put a charge across plates and then added a radioactive material, some of the charge could leak through the conductive gas and the more radioactive material you had, the more current you would get. I also described this in my video about Marie Curie.

  • @camilorivera4685

    @camilorivera4685

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics Thanks for your response Kathy. Let me clarify a bit my question number two: what i dont get is how he knew that there were towo types of radiation (alfa and beta) by perfoming the experiment.

  • @Hopeless_and_Forlorn

    @Hopeless_and_Forlorn

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@camilorivera4685 Rutherford was able to use a simple electroscope to measure the rate of ionization of air molecules in the vicinity of radioactive materials. He found that paper or thin metal foils placed between the source and the electroscope greatly decreased the discharge close to the source, but seemed to have little effect on the rate at slightly greater distances. He concluded that two type of radiation were present: heavy, slow-moving particles that could be easily blocked (alpha), and lighter, faster moving particles that were not so affected by blocking material (beta). Gamma rays were later differentiated by similar methods.

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    4 жыл бұрын

    Camilo Rivera he saw that the radiation would be reduced quickly by sheets of metal in the way but then after a while, the radiation level seemed basically constant. He therefore decided that their were at least 2 types of radiation, one that was blacked by thin metal sheets and one that wasn’t.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104

    @lawrencedoliveiro9104

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don’t think radon is conductive. The answer should be that radioactivity consists in the emission of highly energetic particles, capable of ionizing the atoms of the air. This turns the normally insulating air into a conductor, and a current flows if you set up a voltage difference across the gap.

  • @161mrunaliavaghade2
    @161mrunaliavaghade22 жыл бұрын

    Hi if possible can u provide me the notes like If u have . I actually have to write the biography of rutherford . Hope u respond

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sure, shoot me an email and I will send you a word file. KathylovesphysicsATgmail.com

  • @161mrunaliavaghade2

    @161mrunaliavaghade2

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually I tried sending u an email but it says that the email I'd is invalid

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie95512 жыл бұрын

    In very ancient times, the conics, ratio-rates of gearing proportioning were obvious phenomena built into time-timing sync-duration identification in conglomerations of Primes and Cofactors of the distribution Professor Tao identified, that corresponds with Galileo's timing modulation Pendula in the "gravitational" field and Newton's axial->tangential line-of-sight superposition identification of Infinitesimal Corpuscles, or Fluxions set in the Infinity +/- of Euler's e-Pi-i sync-duration connectivity function, which implies that the pivotal Centre of Logarithmic Superspin Superposition-point Singularity Time Duration Timing interference modulation has a local nucleus of zero difference around which omnidirectional-dimensional 1-0-infinity cause-effect is the pure-math manifestation of Reciproction-recirculation Singularity zero-infinity +/- ONE-INFINITY Eternity-now-> Integration Interval here-now-forever. JJ Thompson expected to explain phenomena using vortices, and only needed more accurate reasoning such as Bergson posited, but projection-drawing of holographic e-Pi resonances is more than difficult when confronted by Ego based beliefs.

  • @rickhole
    @rickhole2 жыл бұрын

    How about the story of Philo Farnsworth?

  • @mattnelson2765
    @mattnelson27655 жыл бұрын

    Christchurch, Canterbury,New Zealand. My home :)

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lucky you. I hear that New Zealand is incomparably beautiful. I hear you have a museum dedicated to Rutherford. Would love to see it someday.

  • @LWJCarroll
    @LWJCarroll2 жыл бұрын

    Interesting but I thought he worked at the Canterbury University in Christchurch New Zealand before he went over seas???.. His Lab there was recently restored as an exhibit....Thanks Laurie, Tokoroa, New Zealand...

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    He went to college at Canterbury University. But then he went to graduate school (basically, they didn’t call it that) with JJ Thomson.

  • @te_piriti9220

    @te_piriti9220

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics Love your work. Canterbury is my Alma Mater. Little bit of background re Rutherford's attitude to female academics. Canterbury College was founded in 1873 and staffed by British Professors. The Science College was led by a very progressive Professor Bickerton. It admitted women from its first day. Helen Connon became in 1891 the first female honours graduate in the British Empire. This was 9 years before Rutherford enrolled as an undergraduate so he was already well acquainted with women in academia before he emigrated from his homeland.

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie95512 жыл бұрын

    At the Centre of Time Duration Timing is the 1-0 probability density-intensity real-numberness condensation of transverse trancendental sync-duration Timing Now, and holistic-holographic orbital-orbits of QM-TIME Fields Modulation Mechanism. We are "standing under" temporal superposition, which by First Principles reasoning means we are tuned to the integrated phase-locked coherence-cohesion resonances of looping relative-timing ratio-rates. This concept is pure theory of imagination based in i-reflection containment states, and the wave-particle amplitude and frequency density-intensity aspects of ONE-INFINITY where we occupy the probabilistic state of mind, conscious awareness, sees this "all-at-once sync-duration" as real-numberness Act-uality. Nuclei are AM-FM nodes in the medium that is the Observable Message, Logarithmic Time Duration Timing Superspin.

  • @malcolmlugg9843
    @malcolmlugg98432 жыл бұрын

    The importance of being Ernest

  • @mariaisabelsierramora1108
    @mariaisabelsierramora1108 Жыл бұрын

    Hola! From México

  • @jim9689
    @jim96892 жыл бұрын

    The best part of these videos is when she says "What was going on?"

  • @D800Lover
    @D800Lover2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if Niels Bohr ever told Rutherford: "You are a New Zealander and I am a Zealander." Yep, Bohr was born on the Danish island called Zealand.

  • @666sajad
    @666sajad2 жыл бұрын

    perfect

  • @gerrymcerlean8432
    @gerrymcerlean84322 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, but I noticed a problem. I only mention this because I consider it virtually important that information on KZread should be accurate especially regarding Science (so much of it is rubbish). In this video you mentioned that Marie Curie noted that Thorium was radioactive, yet, in the video about Marie Curie, you said it was Thallium. I don't think Thallium is radioactive. You need to correct this.

  • @Alice-ir5mq
    @Alice-ir5mq4 жыл бұрын

    Immm rellllateeddd to ernest Rutherford

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    4 жыл бұрын

    No WAY!!!!! I am so fascinated by him, one of my top 3 scientists of all time. How are you related to him? Any family stories?

  • @larsmunch4536
    @larsmunch45362 жыл бұрын

    The term "half life" has been in use so long, it will probably not be changed, but according to my personal opinion, it would be smarter to talk about the time to reduce the radiation to one divided by Euler's number, instead of one divided by two. However, this does not change anything about the physics.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro91042 жыл бұрын

    3:52 I suspect they were called “X-rays” because Anglophones couldn’t figure out how to pronounce “Röntgen” ...

  • @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    @Kathy_Loves_Physics

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, in our defense it is a very hard name to say and Roentgen actually called them x-rays

  • @ronnieince4568

    @ronnieince4568

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Kathy_Loves_Physics actually Rontgen called them X rays as he did not know where the rays came from.but they enabled him to see the bones in his own hand .

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