Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 1871-1937 (New Zealand Physicist)
Dates
- Existence: 30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from E. Rutherford to Edward Appleton, 1937, 1957
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.
Correspondence from K. Weekes, 1937, 1939
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.
Letter from Edward Appleton to 'Edward' and two letters from Ernest Rutherford to Edward Appleton, 1922, 1925, 1962
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.