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Rutherford, Ernest, 1871 - 1937 (Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist)

 Person

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:

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Album of printed items relating to the celebration, 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 11/3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1931
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
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Correspondence relating to Peter Leonidovich Kapitza's 'detention' in Russia, 1934 - 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 16
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1934 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
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Correspondence relating to the needs of new Laboratory and of Ernest Rutherford's successor, with proposals for reorganisation of Laboratory, 1937-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 4/2.vii
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The records relate chiefly to the erection and administration of the laboratory buildings and their contents. Indeed, the earliest records are vouchers for equipment purchased by James Clerk Maxwell, first Professor, in 1876-9. There are also smaller quantities of records relating to laboratory clubs, 1902-72, the celebration of the Clerk Maxwell centenary, 1931, research programmes, 1960-92, including the Cambridge Energy Research Group, and applications to work and study at the laboratory,...
Dates: 1937-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
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Correspondence, reports and receipts concerning the liquid air machine at first on loan and eventually given to the Laboratory, 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 9/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The records relate chiefly to the erection and administration of the laboratory buildings and their contents. Indeed, the earliest records are vouchers for equipment purchased by James Clerk Maxwell, first Professor, in 1876-9. There are also smaller quantities of records relating to laboratory clubs, 1902-72, the celebration of the Clerk Maxwell centenary, 1931, research programmes, 1960-92, including the Cambridge Energy Research Group, and applications to work and study at the laboratory,...
Dates: 1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
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Ernst Ganz (Zurich and Munich), 1936 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 14/17
Scope and Contents

To Rutherford. Including 4 offprints of papers by Ganz (nos 11-14).

Dates: 1936 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
 Item

Letter from E. Rutherford accepting membership of the Committee, 1921-02-23

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/VCCorr.XII/20.33
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

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.

Dates: 1921-02-23
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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M.Z. Uddin (Aligarh U.P.), 1933 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 14/3
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1933 - 1938
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
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Papers relating to the glass blowing lathe, 1937-05-04 - 1937-12-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 4/3.iii
Scope and Contents

Comprise: estimates with photographs for equipment from Litton Engineering Laboratories, Redwood, California; with authorisations for purchase signed by Lord Rutherford.

Dates: 1937-05-04 - 1937-12-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.
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Rudolf Peierls (Berlin and Zurich), 1935 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CAV 14/7
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1935 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archives are unrestricted, except for 80 years closure period imposed on personal files, catalogued as CAV 10 and 15 under data protection legislation.