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RUTHERFORDIUM Element Symbol: Rf Atomic Number: 104 An initiative of IYC 2011 brought to you by the RACI ROBYN SILK www.raci.org.au RUTHERFORDIUM Element symbol: Rf Atomic number: 104 Rutherfordium is a man-made element first claimed to have been observed in 1964 in a particle accelerator in Dubna in Russia by fusing ions of plutonium (atomic number 94) and neon (atomic number 10). This was later disputed by American scientists who made it in 1969 by a completely different method. It is extremely radioactive; even the most stable of the 16 known isotopes would leave only around 1 billionth of the original material remaining after one day. The element is named after Lord Rutherford (1871-1937), the famous New Zealand scientist who pioneered our understanding of the structure of the atom, and developed the ‘planetary’ model of the atom with the positive nucleus and negative electrons orbiting it, which at the time was a huge breakthrough. He was also the leading pioneer of nuclear physics and our understanding of radioactivity. Provided by the element sponsor Noel Davies ARTISTS DESCRIPTION I’ve chosen to depict this element through the planetary model of the atom as developed by New Zealand nuclear physicist, Lord Ernest Rutherford. This print is a single cut woodblock with two layers of colour. The background layer colour of gold represents the radioactive isotope of plutonium used to synthesize Rutherfordium and depicts the visual element of Rutherfordium’s atomic number 104. Rutherfordium is absent in the geosphere because it is man-made. I’ve represented this absence by the black empty space at the centre of the print where the nucleus would normally be. ROBYN SILK.

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