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.
Details
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
Related entries
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
- Exhibition Papers, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/exhib_papers.htm. Details
- Sir Mark Oliphant, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/oliphant/oliphant.htm. Details
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- Campbell, John, Rutherford: Scientist Supreme (Christchurch, NZ: AAS Publications, 1999), 531 pp. Details
- Focken, C. M., Lord Rutherford of Nelson (Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1937), 19 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
- Barrette, Jean, 'Nucleus-nucleus scattering and the Rutherford experiment', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51 (3/4) (2021), 434-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1962368. Details
- Campbell, John, 'Rutherford's early life and work in New Zealand', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51 (3/4) (2021), 415-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1915805. Details
- Campbell, John, 'Aftermath - a personal view [Ernest Rutherford]', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51 (3/4) (2021), 592-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1975779. Details
- Davies, Susan, 'Rutherford and Physics in Australia', Australian Physicist, 20 (October) (1983), 219-223. Details
- Dean, Katrina, 'Inscribing Settler Science: Ernest Rutherford, Thomas Laby and the Making of Careers in Physics', History of Science, 41 (2003), 217-240. Details
- Longair, Malcolm, 'Rutherford and the Cavendish Laboratory', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51 (3/4) (2021), 444-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1885452. Details
- Suvorova, Olga, 'Rutherford and Russian physics: the critical influence of the human factor', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51 (3/4) (2021), 467-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1914690. Details
Resources
- Rutherford, http://www.rutherford.org.nz. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9123. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/66546175. Details
- 'Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-855563. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DSc, 1914', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Lord Rutherford of Nelson - Ms 77', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms077.html. Details
- 'Ernest Rutherford', in Heroes, 2000, http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford.html. Details
See also
- Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist (1990). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. Details
- Caro, D. E.; Martin, R. L., 'Leslie Harold Martin 1900-1983', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710097. Details
- Stephens, C.G.; and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (3) (1988), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9880730299. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 24 August 2023
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