Person

Rutherford, Ernest (1871 - 1937)

Kt FRS

Born
30 August 1871
New Zealand
Died
19 October 1937
Occupation
Physicist

Summary

Sir Ernest Rutherford was appointed Director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1919 where he specialised in nuclear physics, having previously been Professor of Physics, McGill University 1898-1907 and Manchester University 1907-1919. He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908.

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Born 30 August 1871. Died 19 October 1937. Knight Bachelor (Kt) 1914, OM 1925, Peer (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 1931.Educated Canterbury College, Christchurch (BA 1892, MA 1893, BSc 1894) and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Professor of physics, McGill University 1898-1907, Professor of physics, University of Manchester 1907-19, Director, Cavendish Laboratory 1919-37, professor of natural philosophy, Royal Institution, London 1921-37. Bakerian lecture, Royal Society 1904, Silliman lectures, Yale University 1905, Rumford Medal, Royal Society 1904, Nobel Prize for chemistry 1908, Bakerian Lecture, Royal Society 1920, Copley Medal, Royal Society 1922. President, Section A, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1909, President, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1925, President, Royal Society 1925-30.

Chronology

1914
Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Ernest Rutherford - Records, 1908 - 1933, MS 077; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
  • John Percival Vissing Madsen - Records, 1906 - 1969, MS 072; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
  • Leonard George Holden Huxley - Records, 1933 - 1948, MS 102; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Campbell, John, Rutherford: Scientist Supreme (Christchurch, NZ: AAS Publications, 1999), 531 pp. Details
  • Ramsay, Andrew, The basis of everything: Rutherford and Oliphant and the making of the atomic bomb (Sydney: Harper Collins, 2019), 374 pp. Details
  • Reeves, Richard, A Force of Nature: the Frontier Genius of Ernst Rutherford (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008), 207 pp. Details

CD Roms

  • Ashurst, Gillian (director and editor), Campbell, John, Rutherford [videorecording] : the life and work of Ernest Rutherford ([Auckland, N.Z.]: Spacegirl Productions, 2011). Details

Journal Articles

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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