The passing of Lord Rutherford deprives Great Britain ai one of her greatest scientists of all time. A New Zealander by birth who completed his education at Cambridge University his brilliant scientific discoveries brought fame to himself and honour to that institution. To his country and to the world he made great contributions in development of industrial research and the science of radio-activity. After a period of research at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge He became MacDona'4 Professor of Physics at MacGill University at Montreal in 1898, but in 1919 he returned to Cambridge as Cavendish Professor of experimental physics with the Fellówship of Trinity and a professorship of o at the Royal Institution in London intofthe bargain. By a notable series of researches he established the existence and nature of radio-active transformations, the electrical structure of matter and the nuclear nature of the atom. The honours which came to him from British and foreign sources were numerous, He was elected an F.R.S. in 1903, the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 was awarded to him and he was invested with the Order of Merit in 1925, in addition to the knighthood conferred on him in 1914. He was raised to the peerage in 1931.
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