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Why did Ernest Rutherford move to the University of Cambridge in 1895?
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In 1895, Ernest Rutherford moved to the University of Cambridge after winning a scholarship funded by profits from the Great Exhibition of 1851. He chose to continue his scientific studies at the university's Cavendish Laboratory, which was then led by J.J. Thomson, a renowned expert in electromagnetic radiation.1