"GREATEST SCIENTIST”
Lord Bledisloe’s Suggestion ' “I sometimes wonder why New Zealand is rather slow to recognise the fact that the world’s greatest scientist, Lord Rutherford, was born here,” .said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, speaking at St. Andrew’s College, at Christchurch. His Excellency stated Lord Rutherford’s portrait was recently hung in England with those of five Other great scientists of the world. “Might It not be worthy enterprise,” he asked, “to secure a replica of that picture to hang either in Nelson, where he was a schoolboy, in Christchurch, where he was a university student, or in Wellington, the capital?”
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 8
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99"GREATEST SCIENTIST” Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 8
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