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Hidden : 6/20/2006

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Geocache Description:

This is the 1st official cache on McGill main Campus.
Officiellement , la premiere cache sur le campus principal de McGill.

Emmenez votre crayon! Bring your pen.
Un gratteux pour le PAT! One lottery ticked for the FTF

Portrait

Rutherford was born at Spring Grove, (now in Brightwater), near Nelson. He studied at Nelson College and won a scholarship to study at Canterbury College, University of New Zealand. In 1895, after gaining his BA, MA and BSc, and doing two years of research at the forefront of electrical technology, Rutherford travelled to England for postgraduate study at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1895-1898), and was resident at Trinity College. There he briefly held the world record for the distance over which electromagnetic waves could be detected. During the investigation of radioactivity he coined the terms alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

In 1898 Rutherford was appointed to the chair of physics at McGill University, in Canada, where he did the work which gained him the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He had demonstrated that radioactivity was the spontaneous disintegration of atoms. He noticed that in a sample of radioactive material it invariably took the same amount of time for half the sample to decay — its "half-life" — and created a practical application for this phenomenon using this constant rate of decay as a clock, which could then be used to help determine the actual age of the Earth that turned out to be much older than most scientists at the time believed.

Step 1/Etape 1

Go to the published coordinates, there you will find a plaque for the Baron.
Look for the following info : Year of installation of the plaque (####)
Allez au coordonnes publiees, a cet endroit vous trouverez une plaque commémorative
Cherchez les infos suivantes : L'annee d'installation de la plaque

Step 2/Etape 2

Add #### to the N45 28.356
Substract #### to W73 36.420

Ajoutez #### to the N45 28.356
Soustraire #### to the W73 36.420

La cache se trouve la :-) Et si vous venez pendant les heures du bureau, peut etre vais-je etre en train de vous regarder :-) Envoyez moi un courriel

The cache is there waiting for you... And if you're coming during business hours, maybe I'll be there watching you... Send me an email if that's your plan.

PLEASE SEND ME YOUR COORDINATES IF THEY ARE WAY DIFFERENT THAN MINE. I WILL CHANGE EM. THE PRECISION WAS BETWEEN 8 and 10M.I did collect more than 10 samples and did an average.

Work is being done on the building... here's alink to the info about the plaque...
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