New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics, "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ernest Rutherford
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Virtues - Curiosity
Lord Rutherford wears a coronet - he had been raised to the peerage in 1931. ...
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René Descartes
Philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Netherlands.
Sir Henry De la Beche
Born Welbeck Street. An unusual childhood: his father changed their name from Beach to create a fictional connection with the medieval Barons De la Beche of Aldworth. Inheriting a slave plantation ...
Festival of Britain
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after WW2, and incidentally to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. The symbol for the Festival was designed ...
Hugh Percival Wilkins
Amateur astronomer, mechanical engineer and civil servant. Born in Carmarthen, he was known as Hugh Percy. He was elected to the British Astronomical Association in 1918, and was director of its Lu...
Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Science, Wales
Ada Countess of Lovelace
Mathematician and computer pioneer. Born 13 Piccadilly Terrace, daughter of Lord Byron. Brought up by her mother and directed towards science rather than the arts, in fear that otherwise she might ...

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