{"id":22040,"date":"2020-04-09T13:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/efemerides\/9-de-abril-de-1850-fallece-william-prout-fisico-y-quimico-cuyo-descubrimiento-fue-una-de\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:58:00","slug":"april-9-1850-death-william-prout-whose-discovery-was-one-reasons-ernest-rutherford-named-proton","status":"publish","type":"re_efemeride","link":"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/anniversaries\/april-9-1850-death-william-prout-whose-discovery-was-one-reasons-ernest-rutherford-named-proton\/","title":{"rendered":"April 9, 1850 \u2013 Death of William Prout, physicist and chemist whose discovery was one of the reasons Ernest Rutherford named the proton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prout_william.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prout_william.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prout_william-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/prout_william-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>His professional life was devoted to physics in London, but he focused on chemical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1823 he discovered that gastric juices contain hydrochloric acid and that these can be separated by distillation, in 1827, he proposed the classification of food substances into carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Prout is best remembered for his research in physical chemistry. In 1815, taking as a reference the tables of atomic weights of his time, he postulated the hypothesis: \"The atomic weight of every element is an integer multiple of the weight of hydrogen, so the hydrogen atom is the only truly fundamental particle and that the atoms of other chemical elements are made of groups of several hydrogen atoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not subsequently corroborated, although it was a sufficiently fundamental approximation to the structure of the atom so that the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/ernest-rutherford-nobel-prize-considered-one-fathers-atomic-physics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ernest Rutherford,<\/a> in 1920, chose the name of the recently discovered \"proton\" to, among other reasons, recognize the merit of Prout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to know more about this scientist, click on the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/william-prout-physicist-chemist-whose-discovery-led-ernest-rutherford-name-proton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Prout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 1850 \u2013 Death of William Prout, physicist and chemist whose discovery was one of the reasons Ernest Rutherford named the proton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":17903,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[6255,7560,7715],"mes":[7208],"clasificacion_anterior":[],"class_list":["post-22040","re_efemeride","type-re_efemeride","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-atomos","tag-atomo-en","tag-periodic-table-en","mes-april"],"acf":{"fecha":"18500409"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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