Rutherford, Ernest, 1871 - 1937 (Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist)
Dates and places
1871-1937. Born in Nelson, New Zealand. Died in Cambridge, UK
Geographical areas
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Legal status / Nationality
New Zealander
Sphere of activity
Physics
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Album of printed items relating to the celebration, 1931
Comprises: invitations, lists of institutions represented, handbook, travel arrangements, form of prayers at Westminster Abbey ceremony, table plans, lists of delegates, copy of J.J. Thomson's address, press-cuttings of reports of speeches by Lord Rutherford, Sir J. Larmor etc. Photographs of exhibition in Cavendish Laboratory and Clerk Maxwell with his aunt are tucked into pocket at back.
Correspondence relating to Peter Leonidovich Kapitza's 'detention' in Russia, 1934 - 1935
Includes letters exchanged between Sir Ernest Rutherford; J.F. Cameron, Vice-Chancellor; Sir Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office; Sir Frank Smith, Secretary of the Royal Society and Peter Leonidovich Kapitza.
Correspondence relating to the needs of new Laboratory and of Ernest Rutherford's successor, with proposals for reorganisation of Laboratory, 1937-11
Correspondence, reports and receipts concerning the liquid air machine at first on loan and eventually given to the Laboratory, 1920 - 1929
Ernst Ganz (Zurich and Munich), 1936 - 1939
To Rutherford. Including 4 offprints of papers by Ganz (nos 11-14).
Letter from E. Rutherford accepting membership of the Committee, 1921-02-23
The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.
M.Z. Uddin (Aligarh U.P.), 1933 - 1938
Including series of pencil notes on experiments in magnetism and a paper in Physics, Part I of Natural Sciences tripos, 1937 (no 4); letters from Rutherford to Cockcroft, 13 July 1936 (no 22), and from Kitson-Clark (tutor of Trinity College) to Cockcroft about Uddin's laboratory fees, 9 Nov. 1937 (no 30).
Papers relating to the glass blowing lathe, 1937-05-04 - 1937-12-21
Comprise: estimates with photographs for equipment from Litton Engineering Laboratories, Redwood, California; with authorisations for purchase signed by Lord Rutherford.
Rudolf Peierls (Berlin and Zurich), 1935 - 1937
Including letters from Rutherford to Rayleigh and Gowland Hopkins about the Mond post (3 items, nos 7-9); from H. Thirkell and others about the grant of an M.A. degree to Peierls (14 items, nos 20-33); and from Peierls to Rutherford about a visit to Moscow, Oct. 1937 (2 items, nos 44-5).