RUTHERFORD OF NELSON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 11

RUTHERFORD OF NELSON

(To The Editor! Sir,—ln view of the fact that the late Lord Rutherford is acclaimed by the majority of scientific thinkers in Britain, Europe and the United States as the greatest scientific investigator and d.scoverer since Newton, it will be conceded that he is easily the most distinguished man to whom New Zealand has yet given birth. It is now over twelve months since his death, and so far as one can ascertain there is no national movement (beyond the suggestion put forward by the Physical and Mental Welfare Society) to establish a lasting memorial in his honour. I therefore ask that fuller publicity be given to the P.M.W. Society’s proposal, made at the time of his death, that a memorial fund be raised for the perpetual endowment of a scheme to furnish scientific truths and scientific views direct to the ordinary man and woman through their most popular medium of gaining current knowledge, i.e., the Press; such knowledge and such views to be supplied by a non-political, non-sectarian committee of scientists and other qualified men and women.—l am, etc., E. M MILLER. Auckland, 21st Nov.