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Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 1871-1937 (New Zealand Physicist)

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: 30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence from E. Rutherford to Edward Appleton, 1937, 1957

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/E.104
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from E. Rutherford to Edward Appleton. The material consist of one letter only, dated 22 August 1937. Rutherford died in October 1937 and there is included a copy of the order of service at Rutherford's funeral and a later typed note by Appleton dated 25 February 1957.

Dates: 1937, 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Correspondence from K. Weekes, 1937, 1939

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.186
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from K. Weekes, dated 1937 and 1939. The material includes a manuscript report by Weekes for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, on ‘An Investigation of the E-region of the Ionosphere', endorsed I Approved Rutherford Oct. 12/1937'. Ernest Rutherford died on 19 October 1937.

Dates: 1937, 1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Lunar tides

Letter from Edward Appleton to 'Edward' and two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton, 1922, 1925, 1962

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Identifier: Coll-37/A.5
Scope and Contents

Letter from Appleton to 'Edward' dated 1962 describing his award of The Wiltshire Prize for Geology and Mineralogy in his Cambridge Tripos in 1913.


Two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton. The first is dated 1922, recommending Appleton for 'The King's Professorship (N.B. Appleton became Wheatstone Professor at King's College, London, only in 1924), and the second is dated 1925, accepting his resignation as Assistant Demonstrator of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Dates: 1922, 1925, 1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Career, honours and awards

Professor Ernest Rutherford, c mid-20th century

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Identifier: Coll-1716/1/17
Scope and Contents

Glass slide showing a portrait of Ernest Rutherford (photograph).

Dates: c mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Slides of Professor Max Born / Portraits of scientists

Professors Ernest Rutherford and Joseph John Thomson, c mid-20th century

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Identifier: Coll-1716/1/18
Scope and Contents

Glass slide showing a group portrait of Ernest Rutherford and Joseph John Thomson (photograph).

Dates: c mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Slides of Professor Max Born / Portraits of scientists

Rutherford, Fowler, Born, Tyndall, Langevin, Eddington, and Bragg, c mid-20th century

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Identifier: Coll-1716/1/19
Scope and Contents

Glass slide showing a group portrait of Ernest Rutherford, Fowler, Max Born, Tyndall, Paul Langevin, Eddington, and W. H. Bragg (photograph). Fruther identifying details on Tyndall and Eddington are unknown.

Dates: c mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Slides of Professor Max Born / Portraits of scientists

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