Death of Lord Rutherford, New Zealand's greatest scientist who won international fame for his researches

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Death of Lord Rutherford, New Zealand's greatest scientist who won international fame for his researches

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Lord Rutherford was born at Brightwater, Nelson, in 1871 and left New Zealand in 1895 after his education at Nelson College and Canterbury University College to enter Trinity College, Cambridge. He went from strength to strength in his researches, his major achievement being the splitting of the atom. Left: The portrait of Lord Rutherford, painted by Oswald Bizley, which hangs in the Royal Institution, London. A replica was presented to Viscount Bledisloe to the New Zealand National Art Galle...

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1937-10-27

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Auckland Weekly News

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https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/277430

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Portraits / Group portraits / Scientists / Nuclear physicists / Nobel Prize winners / Brightwater / Tasman District / Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 / Easterfield, Thomas Hill, 1866-1949 / Rutherford, William Lindsay, 1907-1987

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