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Authorised form of name	Rutherford; Ernest (1871 - 1937); Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Dates	1871 - 1937
Nationality	New Zealand
Place of birth	Spring Grove [Brightwater, New Zealand]
Date of birth	30 August 1871
Place of death	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Date of death	19/10/1937
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: Westminster Abbey, London (ashes)
Research field	Physics
Research field	Chemistry
Activity	Education: Nelson College, New Zealand (Marlborough Education Board Scholarship) (1887-1889); Canterbury College, Christchuch (1890-1894). BA, BSc, MA (Hons), DSc (University of New Zealand); BA (Cambridge); BSc (McGill, ad eudem) Career: Worked as a relieving teacher, Christchurch Boys High School (1894); won a scholarship as a research student in England and went to work with J J Thompson (FRS 1884), Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge; Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1898); worked on radioactivity with Frederick Soddy (FRS 1910); moved to Manchester University, England (1907); worked on acoustic detection of submarines (during World War 1); Director, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, where he split the atom (1919); helped to found, and was President of, the Academic Assistance Council to aid displaced academics (1933); received about 32 Honorary doctorates; his honours included 34 medals, and Honorary Fellowships of many societies; his picture appeared on $100 (NZ) note (went into circulation 1992) Had little patience with left wing politics or with theoretical speculation generally. His accent was said to be a combination of West Country and Cockney. Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1908 Honours: Kt 1914; OM 1925; Baron 1931 Memberships: Hon RSNZ (1904); FInstP (president 1931-1933)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	11/06/1903
RSActivity	Royal Society roles: PRS 1925-1930; VP 1922-1923 Medals and prizes: Rumford Medal 1904; Copley Medal 1922 Lectures: Bakerian 1904 and 1920
Relationships	Son of James Rutherford, wheelwright, engineer and flax miller, and his wife Martha Thompson; married (1900, New Zealand) Mary Georgina Newton, daughter of his landlady in Christchurch; one daughter, Eileen, born 1901; she married Ralph Fowler (FRS 1925); grandfather of Peter Fowler (FRS 1964)
OtherInfo	In the Rutherford Memorial Lecture by E Marsden (1948), published in the Physical Society, 1954, on page 49 it is mentioned that in his childhood, while at Nelson College, he returned home 'to take his full share of housefhold and garden chores at home and helped his father and his eldest brother George in the sawmilling and flaxmilling operations......He spent periods of his holiday with relatives earning pin money by hop-picking. It was on such a visit that he carved the potato-masher for his grandmother which is now held by the Royal Society.'
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; DNZB; www.rutherford.org.nz Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 395-423, plate, by A S Eve and J Chadwick References: Sir Harold Hartley, 'The Ramsay Centenary' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 71-80 Derek J Price, 'The Cavendish Laboratory Archives' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 139-147 C T R Wilson, 'Reminiscences of My Early Years' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 163-173 E N da C Andrade, 'Some Reminiscences of Ernest Marsden's Days with Rutherford at Manchester' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 247-250 Sir Mark Oliphant, 'Some Personal Recollections of Rutherford, the Man' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 7-23 Sir Harrie Massey, 'Nuclear Physics Today and in Rutherford's Day' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 25-44 N Feather, 'Rutherford - Faraday - Newton' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 45-55 Lord Blackett, 'Rutherford' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 57-59 W Bennett Lewis, 'Some Recollections and Reflections on Rutherford' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 61-63 Sir Nevill Mott, 'Rutherford and Theory' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 65-66 P P O'Shea, 'Ernest Rutherford, his Honours and Distinctions' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 67-74 J B Adams, 'Four Generations of Nuclear Physicists' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 75-94, plate Anon., 'Rutherford Centenary Celebrations' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 p 5, plate J W Boag and D Shoenberg (trans and eds), 'Letters from Kapitza to his Mother, 1921-27' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 205-228 Sir Rudolf Peierls, 'Rutherford and Bohr' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 229-241 S Devons, 'Rutherford and the Science of His Day' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 221-242, plate Robin J H Clark and Michael J Kelly, 'New Zealand, New Zealanders and the Royal Society' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 263-281 Allan R Mackintosh, 'The Crocodile and the Elephant: Rutherford, Bohr and Quantum Physics' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 309-316, plate G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262 R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332 P Fara, ' Big bangs. Invisible rays: a history of radioactivity' by G I Brown R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 Neil Todd, 'A Brief History of Lord Rutherford's Radium' in NR 2014, vol 68, no3, pp 279-300 E Marsden 'Rutherford, by those who knew him' in Physical Society, 1954. Report of Rutherford Memorial Lecture (1948) Notes: Mistakenly registered in the birth records in New Zealand as 'Earnest'
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/66546175
Code	NA8278

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
IM/003948	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
PB/9/1/25	Correspondence with Sir James Chadwick	1971
PB/7/2/4/17/1	Correspondence re European Physical Society Conference, 1969	1969
PB/8/25	Rutherford Memorial Lecture, 1954.	1954
PB/7/2/4/19	Rutherford Centenary Celebrations, Moscow, August 1971	1971
NLB/64/697	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G FRS	4 June 1923
PB/8/47/3	'Rutherford Celebration, 1961'	1961
NLB/63/227	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	20 July 1922
MM/18/24B	Letter from David Chilton Phillips, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford to Ronald Keay	12 April 1979
IM/003951	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
IM/003947	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
MM/18/26	Letter from William Lawrence Bragg to Ernest Rutherford	5 May 1929
PB/8/36/2	Background material	1958
MM/18/32	Letter from EA Crutchley, Cambridge University Press, to J Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society	9 June 1939
MM/18/24A	Letter from Mark Oliphant to David Martin, Executive Secretary, Royal Society	23 November 1971
MM/18/25	Letter from William Lawrence Bragg to Ernest Rutherford	3 June 1929
PB/2/7/5/3	Photocopy of letter from Blackett to Rutherford telling Rutherford of his decision to move from Manchester to take up the Langworthy Chair of Physics.	5 July 1937
PB/8/36/3	Background material.	1958
PB/2/7/10/1	Correspondence with Ronald G Stansfield, re technique of scintillation-counting in the early 1920s.	February 1972
IM/003949	Group photograph	nd
PB/8/63	Speech of welcome to Piotr and Anna Kapitza at Royal Society when Kapitza gave lecture on recollections of Rutherford, May 1966.	1966
IM/007123	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
IM/007122	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
NLB/40/608	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford FRS	5 July 1909
PB/8/36/1	Offprint of published version of Blackett's Rutherford Memorial Lecture.	1947-1958
NLB/29/663	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	22 November 1904
NLB/29/797	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	12 December 1904
RR/15/109	Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'Energy of rontgen & becquerel rays and the energy required to produce an ion in gases' by Professor Ernest Rutherford and R K McClung	11 July 1900
RR/15/110	Referee's report by Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Energy of rontgen & becquerel rays and the energy required to produce an ion in gases' by Professor Ernest Rutherford and R K McClung	3 August 1900
RR/16/123	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The photo-electric discharge between metallic surfaces' by W Mansergh Varley	June 1903
NLB/21/327	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, [Fellow of the Royal Society] and R K McClung	1 November 1900
NLB/21/11	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society	16 July 1900
NLB/21/35	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society	18 July 1900
NLB/21/227	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, and R K McClung, McGill University, Montreal	1 October 1900
NLB/21/238	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Macdonald Physics Building, McGill University, Montreal, Canada	8 October 1900
NLB/23/2/548	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 November 1904
NLB/35/408	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	30 May 1907
NLB/29/738	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	5 December 1904
NLB/32/421	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 February 1906
NLB/33/677	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society, McGill University	19 October 1906
NLB/35/821	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	19 July 1907
NLB/35/723	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], President, Royal Society	10 July 1907
NLB/35/407	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	30 March 1907
NLB/35/653	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 June 1907
NLB/39/721	Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [Ernest] Rutherford	27 February 1909
NLB/41/571	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	15 January 1910
NLB/50/224	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 May 1914
NLB/41/669	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Ernest] Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	1 February 1910
NLB/43/44/1	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 October 1910
NLB/43/245	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	29 November 1910
NLB/44/356	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford FRS	27 June 1911
NLB/62/424	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	13 February 1922
NLB/46/308	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Ernest] Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	9 July 1912
NLB/46/380	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Ernest] Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	23 July 1912
NLB/48/362	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Ernest] Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 June 1913
NLB/48/258	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Gassiot Committee (Professor [Ernest] Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society)	4 June 1913
NLB/50/243	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	29 May 1914
NLB/50/160	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	11 May 1914
NLB/52/6	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Ernest Rutherford FRS	14 July 1915
NLB/60/13	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	2 December 1920
NLB/60/383	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	20 January 1921
NLB/54/83	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	5 February 1917
RR/23/49	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The genesis of pleochroic haloes' by John Joly	June 1916
RR/18/159	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'A theory of the chemical action of the electric discharge in electrolytic gas' by P J Kirkby	[December 1910]
NLB/54/441	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]	17 May 1917
NLB/54/832	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	15 October 1917
RR/24/53	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The composition of the x-rays from various metals' by George William Clarkson Kaye	[March 1917]
RR/29/46	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'On the effect of X-rays of different wave-lengths upon some animal tissues. Proof of differential action' by Sidney Russ	May 1923
RR/13/108	Note by Ernest Rutherford, on his paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications'	1896
RR/32/113	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The atomic disintegration of nitrogen in vacuum tubes' by R W Riding and Edward Charles Cyril Baly	25 June 1925
MS/929/1/170	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	1 January 1912
MS/929/1/174	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	3 June 1914
MS/929/1/169	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, Physical Laboratories, the University of Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	20th century
MS/929/1/171	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	4 March 1912
MS/929/1/168	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	7 May 1909
NLB/58/631	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	31 May 1920
NLB/63/738	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	08 December 1922
NLB/58/88	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	12 March 1920
NLB/58/450	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	6 May 1920
NLB/58/537	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	18 May 1920
NLB/58/578	Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	26 May 1920
MS/929/1/173	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	12 March 1912
NLB/62/353	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	31 January 1922
NLB/57/230	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent	22 September 1919
NLB/61/363	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	23 June 1921
RR/13/106	Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications' by Ernest Rutherford	June 1896
RR/13/107	Referee's report by Charles Vernon Boys, on a paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications' by Ernest Rutherford	July 1896
NLB/58/405	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	30 April 1920
RR/16/226	Referee's report by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The succession of changes in radio-active bodies' by Ernest Rutherford	August 1904
NLB/60/146	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	14 December 1920
NLB/60/111	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	10 December 1920
NLB/60/463	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	10 February 1921
RR/28/38	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'On the scattering of ß-rays' by Harold Albert Wilson	27 May 1922
NLB/60/202	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	22 December 1920
NLB/61/822	Copy letter from Frederick Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	1 November 1921
RR/47/47	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'Velocity of propagation of light in vacuo in a transverse magnetic field' by Clinton Coleridge Farr and C J Banwell	May 1932
NLB/60/723	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	19 March 1921
NLB/64/639	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	18 May 1923
MS/928/6/3/5	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, Celyn, Nant Gwynant, Carnarvon [Caernarfon], to Andrew Russell Forsyth	5 January [February?] 1931
NLB/60/864	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS; Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge	19 April 1921
NLB/61/208	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	2 June 1921
NLB/61/278	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	16 June 1921
NLB/57/606	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	15 December 1919
NLB/61/770	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	21 October 1921
NLB/61/700	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	13 October 1921
NLB/61/20	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	20 April 1921
NLB/57/593	Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director [Sir Joseph Ernest Petavel, FRS, KBE], the National Physical Laboratory	12 December 1919
NLB/63/50	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	17 June 1922
RR/57/59	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'The structure of atomic nuclei' by Harold Albert Wilson	[October 1935]
RR/58/10	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'Time effects in the magnetic cooling method-I' by W Heitler and E Teller	April 1936
NLB/71/30	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Regsitrar, Institute of Chemistry, 20 Russell Sqaure, WC1	9 December 1927
RR/59/84	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'Time effects in the magnetic cooling method II—the conductivity of heat' by Herbert Fröhlich and Walter Heinrich Heitler	[1936]
RR/62/100	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'The calculation of atomic weights from nuclear reaction energies' by Harold Albert Wilson	[January 1936]
NLB/63/558	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	04 November 1922
MS/929/1/166	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, Grand Hotel Perdi, Rapallo, to James Mackenzie Davidson	4 April 1909
RR/61/53	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'The energy loss of cosmic ray particles in metal plates' by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and J Gordon Wilson	April 1937
NLB/63/23	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	14 June 1922
NLB/62/831	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	17 May 1922
NLB/65/393	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford [Baron Rutherford of Nelson], FRS	26 October 1923
NLB/63/200	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	13 July 1922
NLB/63/810	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	22 December 1922
NLB/57/886	Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	27 February 1920
NLB/57/707	Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford [Baron Rutherford of Nelson], FRS [PRS]	23 January 1920
NLB/63/711	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	05 December 1922
NLB/64/596	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	09 May 1923
NLB/66/37	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	12 February 1924
NLB/63/478	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., FRS	26 October 1922
NLB/65/17	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford [Baron Rutherford of Nelson], FRS	13 July 1923
NLB/65/736	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS	14 December 1923
NLB/65/159	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS	28 August 1923
NLB/64/816	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford FRS.	25 June 1923
NLB/64/684	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Arthur] Harden, FRS	2 June 1923
NLB/68/48	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Sales Manager; the Gaumont Co. Ltd., 5 Sherwood Street, W.1.	4 May 1925
NLB/66/17	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	7 February 1924
NLB/64/883	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS and all members of the Yarrow Fund Management Committee.	6 July 1923
NLB/65/570	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS	22 November 1923
NLB/71/371	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society	26 April 1928
NLB/65/662	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS	5 December 1923
NLB/65/558	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS	20 November 1923
NLB/66/167	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	6 March 1924
NLB/67/547	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS	20 January 1925
NLB/66/225	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	20 March 1924
NLB/66/141	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Patrick Maynard Stuart] Blackett, Esq., King's College, Cambridge	28 February 1924
NLB/66/299	Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy, Secretary] of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	4 April 1924
NLB/66/333	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	10 April 1924
NLB/71/654	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society	26 September 1928
NLB/67/526	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	15 January 1925
NLB/66/515	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA.	21 May 1924
NLB/66/770	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	4 July 1924
NLB/66/283	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	2 April 1924
NLB/68/238	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, FRS	4 June 1925
NLB/67/926	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, FRS	8 April 1925
NLB/68/34	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, FRS	1 May 1925
NLB/69/265	Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Hon. Secretary, The Anglo-French Lunchon Club, 134 Whitehall Court, S.W.1	18 February 1926
NLB/66/552	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	29 May 1924
NLB/69/283	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M. FRS	22 February 1926
NLB/69/580	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Willliam Bragg, FRS	11 June 1926
NLB/69/644	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society	9 July 1926
NLB/69/931	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Consulting Engineer, Hydro-Electric Power Commisssion, 190 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada	19 November 1926
NLB/71/28	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Registrar, Royal College of Physicians, Pall Mall East, SW1	9 December 1927
NLB/70/882	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, President of the Royal Society	29 October 1927
NLB/71/391	Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society; to Prof. L. Guillet, Membre de l'Institut	30 April 1928
NLB/70/851	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society	17 October 1927
NLB/72/38	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, FRS	26 January 1929
NLB/71/583	Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society	12 July 1928
NLB/72/155	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, President of the Royal Society	26 April 1929
NLB/71/195	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [to the organisers of the funeral of Prof. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]	7 February 1928
NLB/71/977	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society	2 January 1929
NLB/72/541	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Registrary; Cambridge University	6 December 1929
NLB/72/969	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, OM, President of the Royal Society	30 September 1930
CD/21/9	Letter from [James Hopwood Jeans], the Royal Society, to Ernest Rutherford	28 February 1924
CD/21/13	Letter from [James Hopwood Jeans], the Royal Society, to Ernest Rutherford	4 April 1924
NLB/68/915	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Ralph Howard] Fowler Esq., FRS	30 November 1925
NLB/66/133	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh.	28 February 1924
MOB/070	Potato masher by Ernest Rutherford	c.1888
EC/1903/10	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/7/2/4/17	European Physical Society	1969
IM/003950	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
NLB/13/654	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society	27 October 1896
RR/16/225	Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on the Bakerian Lecture 'The succession of changes in radio-active bodies' by Ernest Rutherford	25 August 1904
RR/20/60	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'On the electrical emissivity and disintegration of hot metals' by John Allen Harker and George William Clarkson Kaye	May 1913
MC/20/332	Letter from [Ernest] Rutherford, McGill University, Montreal, The Macdonald Physics Building, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	25 December 1904
NLB/44/413	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford FRS	7 July 1911
NLB/51/802	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Ernest Rutherford FRS	3 July 1915
NLB/66/55	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	14 February 1924
MS/929/1/165	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, FRS, 17 Wimslow Road, Withington, Manchester, to James Mackenzie Davidson	2 March 1909
NLB/65/722	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society	12 December 1923
NLB/71/597	Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Mrs. Ludlow-Hewitt	17 July 1928
NLB/64/677	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS	31 May 1923
NLB/66/140	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, FRS	28 February 1924
NLB/66/168	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	6 March 1924
IM/003952	Rutherford, Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson	nd
NLB/35/749	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	12 July 1907
NLB/40/308	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford FRS	24 May 1909
AV/3/9	Film about Lord Rutherford	December 1935
NLB/58	New Letter Book volume 58, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	28 February 1920-9 July 1920
NLB/61	New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	26 April 1921-11 November 1921
NLB/66/506	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	20 May 1924
NLB/66/878	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	1 August 1924
NLB/66/799	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS	11 July 1924
IM/003953	Album of visit on 29 October 1971 to Rutherford High Energy Lab	29 October 1971
P/0112	Portrait of Rutherford, Ernest; Baron Rutherford	1932
NLB/52	New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	9 July 1915-8 March 1916
NLB/57	New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration	27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/19/23	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'Note on a shield to protect the eyes against x-rays and other radiations of great intensity' by George James Burch	[January 1912]
RR/19/76	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'The observation by means of a string electrometer of fluctuations in the ionisation produced by ?-rays' by Thomas Howell Laby and P W Burbidge	[February 1912]
RR/57/71	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, on a paper 'On certain fundamental frequencies and energy constants' by Herbert Stanley Allen	26 May 1936
RR/61/108	Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'Equilibrium curve and entropy difference between the supraconductive and the normal state in Pb, Hg, Sn, Ta, and Nb' by J G Daunt and K Mendelssohn	17 February 1937
NLB/38/192	Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Ernest] Rutherford, [Fellow of the Royal Society], University, Manchester	[June 1908]
NLB/37/382	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 March 1908
NLB/41/159	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 October 1909
MC/20	Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1905
MC/19/718	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, The Macdonald Physics Building, McGill University, Montreal, to [Joseph] Larmor	19 January 1904
MC/19/719	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, McGill University, Montreal, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	7 August 1904
MC/19/720	Letter from Ernest Rutherford, The Macdonald Physics Building, McGill University, Montreal, to [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society	13 November 1904
NLB/44/597	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Professor E [Ernest] Rutherford FRS	20 September 1911
MC/19	Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1904
NLB/29/905	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 January 1905

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