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Rutherford (SIR ERNEST British physicist)

SIR ERNEST, British physicist, born in Nelson, New Zealand, in 1870. He was educated at Nelson College, and at Canterbury College, New Zealand, and took post-graduate courses at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was professor of physics at McGill University, from 1898 to 1907, and was professor and director of the physical laboratory at the University of Manchester. He received the Rumford medal from the Royal Society in 1904, and the Barnard medal in 1910. In 1908 he received the Bressa prize from the RUTHERFORD Turin Academy of Sciences, and also the Nobel prize in 1908. In the same year he was made a knight. His scientific work related chiefly to radio activity. His works include. "Radio-Activity" (1904); "Radio-Active Transformations" (1906); and "Radio-Active Substances and Their Radiations" (1912).