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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectErnest Rutherford
Dates
August 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
Authorized Form of Name
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Additional Forms of Names
Rutherford, E. (Ernest), 1871-1937
Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron of Nelson, 1871-1937
Rutherford, Ernest, Baron, 1871-1937
Biography
Abstract
Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances." Rutherford was tremendously influential in the fields of chemistry and physics; he advised many future Nobel Prize winners and significant scientists, such as James Chadwick, Niels Bohr and Otto Hahn. Throughout his career, he worked at McGill University, University of Manchester, and at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
Important Dates
August 30, 1871Birth, Nelson (N.Z.).
1893Obtained MA in Mathematics and Physical Science, Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, Wellington (N.Z.).
1894Awarded the 1851 Exhibition Science Scholarship and transferred to Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
1894Obtained BSc in Physical Science, Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, Wellington (N.Z.).
1897Awarded BA Research degree and the Coutts-Trotter Studentship, Trinity College, Cambridge (England).
1898MacDonald Chair of Physics, McGill University, Montréal (Québec).
1903Fellow, Royal Society.
1904Awarded the Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Royal Society.
1904Awarded the Rumford Medal, Royal Society.
1907Langworthy Professor of Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester (England).
1908Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".
1910Awarded the Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, Columbia University.
1910Awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute.
1911Theorized the structure of the atom, now called the Rutherford Model.
1913Awarded the Matteucci Medal, Italian Academy of Sciences.
1914Knighted.
1916Awarded the Hector Memorial Prize, Royal Society of New Zealand.
1919Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (England).
1920Created the term "proton," and theorized the existence of the nucleus.
1922Awarded the Copley Medal, Royal Society.
1924Awarded the Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute.
1925Awarded the Order of Merit.
1925 – 1930President, Royal Society.
1928Awarded the Albert Medal, Royal Society of Arts.
1930Awarded the IET Faraday Medal, Institution of Engineering and Technology.
1931Given the title 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson and Cambridge.
1936Awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal, Austrian Trade Union.
October 19, 1937Death, Cambridge (England).
Occupation
Nuclear physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Rutherford, Mary Georgina Newton
Wife, married 1900.
Advisors & Collaborators
Allibone, T. E.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Andrade, E. N. da C. (Edward Neville da Costa), 1887-1971
Advised by Rutherford at University of Manchester.
Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir, 1892-1965
Advised by Rutherford under Wiltshire Prize and Hutchinson Research Studentship
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Bates, L. F. (Leslie Fleetwood)
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Bennett, William E. (William Ernest), 1907-
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Manchester.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Cooke, Hereward Lester
Advised by Rutherford at McGill University.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Douglas, A. Vibert (Allie Vibert), 1894-1988
Advised by Rutherford at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Ellis, C. D. (Charles Drummond), 1895-1980
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Eve, A. S. (Arthur Stewart), 1862-1948
Advised by Rutherford at McGill University.
Fajans, Kasimir, 1887-1975
Advised by Rutherford at University of Manchester.
Feather, N. (Norman)
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1994
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Geiger, Hans, 1882-
Collaborated on radium emanation and alpha rays research, University of Manchester.
Gray, Joseph A., 1884-1966
Advised by Rutherford at University of Manchester.
Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968
Advised by Rutherford at McGill University.
Hartree, Douglas R. (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Collaborated at University of Manchester.
Kapitsa, P. L. (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Kleeman, Richard D. (Richard Daniel)
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Kothari, D. S.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Martin, Leslie Harold
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
McAulay, Alexander Leicester
Advised by Rutherford at University of Manchester.
Moon, Philip Burton
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Moseley, H. G. J. (Henry Gwyn Jeffreys), 1887-1915
Collaborated on characterizing elements at University of Manchester.
Oliphant, Mark, 1901-2000
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Advised by Rutherford at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959
Collaborated at Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University.
Russell, Alexander Stuart
Advised by Rutherford at University of Manchester.
Schuster, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1934
Advisor at University of Manchester.
Shoenberg, D. (David)
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Skinner, H. W. B.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge on ionization.
Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956
Collaborated on the disintegration theory of radioactivity, McGill University.
Solomon, Arthur K. (Arthur Kaskel), 1912-2002
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Stoner, Edmund Clifton
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
Advisor at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Wooster, W. A. (William Alfred)
Advised by Rutherford at University of Cambridge.
Additional
Badash, Lawrence
Beck, Guido, 1903-1988
Bickerton, A. W. (Alexander William), 1842-1929
Birks, J. B. (John Betteley)
Bohr, Margrethe
Boltwood, Bertram Borden, 1870-1927
Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942
Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971
Bretscher, Hanni
Briggs, George Henry
Bunge, Mario, 1919-
Burgers, J. M. (Johannes Martinus), 1895-1981
Burhop, E. H. S. (Eric Henry Stoneley)
Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000
Cathcart, Brian
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
Dee, Philip Ivor, 1904-1983
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Duane, William, 1872-1935
Dyson, Frank Watson
Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966
Evans, Ivor
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985
Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985
Haber, Fritz
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
Hansen, W. W. (William Webster), 1909-1949
Harteck, Paul, 1902-
Heyden, Francis J.
Howorth, Muriel
Hull, Gordon Ferrie, 1870-
Hutton, Robert Salmon
Huxley, L. G. H. (Leonard George Holden)
Jaffé, George Cecil
Jeffreys, Harold, 1891-1989
Kelman, Peter
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich
Laby, T. H. (Thomas Howell)
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968
Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946
Lewis, Wilfrid Bennett,
Libby, Willard F.
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920
Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-
Loeb briefly worked in Rutherford's laboratory in Manchester.
Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928
Madsen, John Percival Vissing
Mann, Frederick George
McKown, Robin
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968
Meyer, Stefan
Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Norst-Rubinowicz, Else.
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979
Perrin, Francis
Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004
Pohl, Robert Wichard, 1884-1976
Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Rowland, John, 1907-1984
Runcorn, S. K.
Saha, Meghnad, 1893-1956
Sargent, Bernice Weldon, 1906-
Schultz, Betty
Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999
Shaw, A. Norman
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy), 1905-1980
Thomson, G. P. (George Paget), 1892-1975
Townsend, John, Sir, 1868-1957
Trenn, Thaddeus J.
Voight, Adolf Frank, 1914-
Walton, Alan J.
Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973
Webster, Arthur Gordon, 1863-1923
Wertenstein, Ludwik, 1887-1945
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Wilson, David A.
Wilson, Harold A. (Harold Albert), 1874-1964
Wilson, W. (William), b. 1875
Wood, A. B. (Albert Beaumont)
Wright, Helen, 1914-
Institutions
Major Positions
McGill University. Physics Department
MacDonald Chair of Physics.
University of Cambridge. Department of Physics
Received BA Research Degree (1987); Coutts-Trotter Studentship of Trinity College (1897); and Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.
University of Manchester. Physics Department
Langworthy Professor of Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Accademia nazionale delle scienze dette dei XL
Awarded the Matteucci Medal (1913).
Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)
Columbia University
Awarded the Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1910).
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal (1910) and the Franklin Medal (1924).
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Awarded the IET Faraday Medal (1930).
International Education Board
Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund
Awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal (1936).
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Member; President; awarded the Copley Medal (1922), the Rumford Medal (1904), and the Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1904).
Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Awarded the Albert Medal (1928).
Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of New Zealand
Awarded the Hector Memorial Medal (1916).
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of New Zealand
Received MA in Mathematics and Physical Science (1893), and BSc (1894), Canterbury College.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Correspondence of Lord Rutherford of Nelson / edited by Dr. Ernest Marsden.
Library
Science Museum (Great Britain)
Imperial College Road, London SW7 5NH, England, UK
Emilio Segre lectures and other collected recordings, 1968-1997.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ernest Rutherford apparatus photographs.
MacDonald Physics Building, 2nd Floor
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ernest Rutherford autograph letters, 1931.
Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
183 Fuston Rd., London NW1 2BN, England UK
Ernest Rutherford correspondence.
Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge CB3 0DS
Ernest Rutherford lecture [microform], 1932.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ernest Rutherford lecture given at Göttingen on Monday, December 14, 1931 [sound recording], recorded by Professor Pohl.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ernest Rutherford letter to Fritz Haber, 1932.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ernest Rutherford papers [microfilm], 1890-1939: from the Cambridge University Library.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Wellington, New Zealand
Ernest Rutherford papers, 1908-1933.
Basser Library
Australian Academy of Science
GPO Box 783, Canberra, ACT 2601
Ernest Rutherford papers.
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Cambridge University
West Road, Cambridge, CH3 9DR
Francis J. Heyden collection of lectures [sound recording], 1935-1965.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Gordon Ferrie Hull papers, 1889-1995.
Rauner Special Collections Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
University Archives
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
International Education Board records, 1923-1960.
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598, USA
Kasimir Fajans papers, 1912-1975.
Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113, USA
Norman Lockyer letters, 1869-1919.
Library
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4PT, England UK.
Nuclear history [sound recording] : voices of the past; compiled by Glen Seaborg.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
O. W. Richardson papers, 1897-1959 (bulk 1920-1940).
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219, USA
Subject
A. Norman Shaw papers, 1882-1963.
University Archives. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
A. W. Bickerton papers, 1877-1946,
Alexander Turnbull Library
Wellington, New Zealand
Adolf Frank Voight response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1982.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Allen Shenstone autobiography, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Arthur Gordon Webster papers, 1892-1920.
Goddard Library. Archives and Special Collections
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-11477, USA
Arthur Gordon Webster papers, 1893-1913.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Arthur Holly Compton papers, 1905-1971.
University Archives
Washington University
Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
Baron Robert John Strutt Rayleigh papers, 1904-1947.
Phillips Laboratory. Geophysics Directorate. Research Library.
United States Air Force
Hanscom Air Force Base, MA 01731, USA
Bernice Sargent Recollections of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1980.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Bertram Borden Boltwood papers, 1890-1932.
Manuscripts and Archives
Yale University Library
Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The making of an astrophysicist, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Century of the atom [sound recording] : ...told through the voices of the scientists who created the nuclear age / a presentation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ; narrated by Chet Huntley and Glenn T. Seaborg.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Collections relating to physics and allied sciences, 1913-1920.
Sydney Jones Library. Special Collections and Archives
University of Liverpool
P. O. Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA
Edmund C. Stoner papers and correspondence, 1909-1969.
Brotherton Library, Department of Special Collections
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Files of Ludwik Wertenstein, 1908-1944.
Archiwum
Polska Akademia Nauk
Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
Frank A. Waterman papers, 1896-1958
Archives
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063, USA
Frank Watson Dyson Papers, 1875-1950.
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Royal Greenwich Observation Archives
Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England UK
Frederick Soddy papers, 1894-1958.
Bodleian Library
University of Oxford
Department of Western Manuscripts Oxford, England, UK
George C. Jaffé papers, 1902-1962.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
George Ellery Hale papers, 1882-1938.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
George Henry Briggs papers, 1868-1983.
Manuscripts Section
National Library of Australia
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Gilbert Newton Lewis papers, 1908-1945.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
H. A. Lorentz papers, 1888-1928.
Algemeen Rijksarchief
The Hague, Netherlands
H. G. J. Moseley papers, circa 1914-1916.
Museum of the History of Science
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ
Hans Geiger Experimentierkunst und Entdeckerfreuden, 1944-1945.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Harold A. Wilson autobiographical notes, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Helen Wright collection on George Ellery Hale, 1887-1972.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Henry Crew papers [microform], 1833-1967, (bulk 1880-1940).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
History of Physics [sound recording], 2014 April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk)
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
J. J. Thomson letters to Ernest Rutherford, 1895-1935.
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Cambridge University
West Road, Cambridge, CH3 9DR
James Chadwick conversation with A. W. Merrison, 1968.
Sydney Jones Library. Special Collections and Archives
University of Liverpool
P. O. Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA
Job application and testimonials, 1911-1914.
Museum of the History of Science
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ
John Percival Vissing Madsen papers, 1906-1969.
Basser Library
Australian Academy of Science
GPO Box 783, Canberra, ACT 2601
John Townsend letters to Lord Rutherford, 1898-1915.
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives.
Cambridge University
West Road, Cambridge, CH3 9DR
Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics records, 1887-1988 (bulk 1949-1969).
Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Kenneth Bainbridge correspondence with James Chadwick and Mark Oliphant, 1973-1974.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
L. G. H. Huxley papers, 1933-1971.
Basser Library
Australian Academy of Science
GPO Box 783, Canberra, ACT 2601
L. H. Gray papers, 1932-1970 (bulk 1944-1965).
Special Collection Library
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
James D. Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Leo Szilard papers, 1898-1998.
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Leonard Loeb autobiography, 1962.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
M. N. Saha correspondence, 1920-1954.
Manuscript Section
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
New Delhi
McGill University Department of Physics records, 1856-1952.
University Archives. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Niels Bohr collection of manuscripts by other authors, 1910-1961.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr holograph eulogy of Ernest Rutherford, 1937.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr material collected elsewhere, 1912-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr scientific correspondence, 1903-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr scientific correspondence, supplement, 1910-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nuclear reminiscences [motion picture].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alan J. Walton, 2014 May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Allen Goodrich Shenstone 1979 March 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Aristid Victor Grosse, 1974 January 11 and April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Betty Compton, 1968 April 11 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Betty Schultz, 1963 May 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, 1968 March 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Christian Lauritsen, 1966 June 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dennis William Sciama, 1999 June 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, 1962 December 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Eric H. S. Burhop, 1970.
Manuscripts Section
National Library of Australia
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Oral history interview with Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, 1963 January 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Georg von Hevesy, 1962 May 25 and 4 February 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George Gamow, 1968 April 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Giuseppe Occhialini, 1971 April 5, 6, May 16, 17, and November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Guido Beck, 1967 April 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hanni Bretscher, 1984 July 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, 1963 July 5 and 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15, 16, 17 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4, May 23 and November 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Leon Rosenfeld, 1968 September 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Leonard B. Loeb, 1962 August 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lise Meitner, 1963 May 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Margrethe Norlund Bohr, 1963 January 23 and 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Goldhaber, 1967 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Merle Antony Tuve, 1967 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Michael Polanyi, 1962 February 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Niels Bohr, 1962 October 31, November 1, 7, 14, and 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Norman Feather, 1971 February 25 and 5 November.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Norman M. Kroll, 1987 March 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with P. A. M. Dirac, 1962 April 1, 1963 May 6, 7, 10 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with P. M. S. Blackett, 1962 December 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Paul Harteck, 1984 August 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with Philip I. Dee, 1971 November 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert S. Shankland, 1974 August 20 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robert Wichard Pohl, 1963 June 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with S. Chandrasekhar, 1977 May 17, 18 and October 31.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with S. Keith Runcorn, 1993 September 16 and 17.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sir George Paget Thomson, 1963 June 20.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sir John Cockcroft, 1963 May 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sir John Cockcroft, 1967 March 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sir Mark Oliphant, 1971 November 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with Sir William Lawrence Bragg, 1969 June 20.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral History interview with William H. Pickering, 2003.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Pais Prize Session [sound recording], 2017 March 13.
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American Institute of Physics
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Paul Harteck papers, 1928-1982.
Folsom Library. Institute Archives and Special Collections
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180, USA
Paul S. Epstein papers, 1898-1966.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Peter J. W. Debye papers, 1901-1906 and 1918-1945.
Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Boltzmannstr. 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Petr L. Kapitsa papers, 1920.
Institute of Physical Problems.
ul. A. N. Kosygina 2, Moscow 117973, Russia
Phillip M. Morse autobiographical data, circa 1962.
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American Institute of Physics
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Pieter Zeeman papers, 1877-1946.
Rijksarchief in Noord-Holland
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Reminiscences of A. B. Wood [sound recording], 1960.
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American Institute of Physics
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Reminiscences of Lord Rutherford by former students [sound recording] / 1971.
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American Institute of Physics
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Reminiscences of Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt: oral history, 1961.
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA
Robert S. Hutton papers, 1897-1970.
John Rylands University Library
University of Manchester
150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH, England, UK
Ronald G. Stansfield papers, 1936-1937.
Archives Centre
Churchill College
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Scientific correspondence [microform], 1907-1962.
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Scientific correspondence, 1900-1946 (bulk 1900-1938)
Bibliothek und Archiv (Austrian Academy of Sciences. Library and Archive).
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Austrian Academy of Sciences).
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Sir Arthur Schuster papers, 1851-1934.
John Rylands University Library
University of Manchester
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Sir Ernest Marsden papers, 1841-1971.
Alexander Turnbull Library
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Sir Harold Jeffreys papers, 1886-1999.
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Sir J. J. Thomson papers and correspondence, 1836-1956.
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Trinity College
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University of Liverpool
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Sir John Cockcroft papers, 1872-1985.
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Churchill College
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Sir Mark Oliphant papers, 1927-1983.
Barr Smith Library. Special Collections.
University of Adelaide.
Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Sir William Lawrence Bragg papers.
Royal Institution of Great Britain
London, England UK
T. H. Laby papers, 1908-1937.
Archives
University of Melbourne.
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University of Oxford. Alembic Club records, 1904-1973.
Museum of the History of Science
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W. W. Hansen miscellaneous materials, 1899-1931.
Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
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W. Wilson papers, 1910-1957; 1960-1985.
Royal Holloway College Library
University of London
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Wilfred B. Lewis papers, 1945-1982.
Archives
Queen's University.
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William Duane correspondence with K. T. Compton, Marie and Pierre Curie, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, and J. J. Thomson,$f1905-1933.
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William Henry Bragg papers, 1889-1960.
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Published Resources
Author
Atomic physics [sound recording] : sound track of the film / produced by J. Arthur Rank for the Atomic Energy Commission, 1948.
Bohr broadcast, Rutherford lecture, and song about physics by Arthur Roberts [sound recording].
Radiations from radioactive substances / by Sir Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwich, and C. D. Ellis.
Radioactive substances and their radiations / by E. Rutherford …
Rutherford and Boltwood: letters on radioactivity. Edited by Lawrence Badash.
Uber die kernstruktur der Atome : Baker-Vorlesung / Autorisierte Übersetzung von Else Norst.
Subject
Atomic Heritage Profile of Ernest Rutherford.
Biography of Ernest Rutherford.
Ernest Rutherford and the atom / [by] P. B. Moon.
Ernest Rutherford Nobel Prize biography.
Ernest Rutherford, a bibliography of his nontechnical writings.
Ernest Rutherford, atom pioneer.
Giant of the atom / Ernest Rutherford.
Het atoommodel van Rutherford-Bohr / Johannes Martinus Burgers.
Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin / Lawrence Badash.
Lord Rutherford on the golf course / by Frederick George Mann.
Physics of the Universe Scientist Ernest Rutherford Biography.
Proceedings. Edited by J. B. Birks.
Rutherford : scientist supreme / John Campbell.
Rutherford [videorecording]: the life and work of Ernest Ruthford / directed and edited by Gillian Ashurst; produced by Gillian Ashurst and John Campbell.
Rutherford and physics at the turn of the century / edited by Mario Bunge and William R. Shea.
Rutherford and the nature of the atom.
Rutherford, simple genius / David Wilson.
Rutherford: recollections of the Cambridge days.
Rutherford: the father of nuclear energy [by] T. E. Allibone.
Rutherford's ancestors / John Campbell.