Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

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On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford once tried to measure the distance of a thunderstorm by counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder. His father, ...

Rutherford's life and his work has been diligently chronicled in a new book by Kiwi author Matthew Wright called Ernest ...

Ernest Rutherford during a visit home to New Zealand in 1926. Photo / Alexander Turnbull Library He helped shape modern technology and is considered one of New Zealand’s greatest scientists. But ...

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with an embossed letterhead. Accompanied by an envelope with 2 stamps, postmarks, and cancellation. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron ...