SIR EARNEST RUTHERFORD
The appc-intmouit of Six Emeri Eutherford to iba (’avuiniyi profeaaoishijJ of cx-perimt'rrt-a! physics, through the resignation of title Ai-osicr of Trinity, ayiieaxs to fcave given general satisiactkai, though the vacancy war, one which it was obviously difficult to fill. Sir Erxiost Eutheribra, who was blighted a 1914, has done wodt of great, d, particularly in radio* actfvitv. l£cs v/us bam in Sow Zealand i« 1011, ami wise educated in the Dominion. After graduating there lie came to Cambridm wr a while, and in 1898 bo c-.iinv .-a- at M‘Giil University, Mon* ■teai, and in 1907 a* ilanehester University/ lie ihm adds one more to the now mmtcrcKis list, of in-ac.-V/is whose past belongs more to the world at large than to Carubridire itself. He obtained the Nobel Prize in” 1909- ft should be added that Sir J. J. Thompson, when he resigned the professorship, ‘consented to retain the sn pexint endeaca of the laboratory.—The ‘ Guardian.’
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Evening Star, Issue 17084, 1 July 1919, Page 4
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