Rutherford
Rutherford names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Rutherford or RUTHERFURD
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or RUTHERFURD, SAMUEL, a Scotch divine; born in Nisbet, Scotland, about the year 1600. He studied at Edinburgh University, and He studied at Edinburgh University, of Anwoth in Kirkcudbright. On account of his strong Presbyterian views he was deprived of his living in 1636 and imprisoned for two years, when he was restored. He took a prominent part in the drawing up of the National Covenant. In 1639 he became Professor of Divinity, and in 1649 principal of the new college, St. Andrews. He published numerous politico-theological treatises. The most famous of these is "Lex Rex" ("The Law, King"), which on the Restoration was publicly burned and he himself charged with high treason. Death prevented him from answering the charge before Parliament. His familiar "Letters" have been frequently reprinted. He died in Edinburgh, March 23, 1661.
Rutherford SIR ERNEST, a British physicist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR ERNEST, a 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 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).
Rutherford a borough of New It lies between Jersey
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough of New It lies between Jersey, in Bergen co. the Passaic and Hackensack rivers, and is on the Erie railroad. It is almost entirely a residential place. Pop. (1910) 7,045; (1920) 9,497.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 knew Sir Ernest Rutherford only as a Nobel laureate whose "scientific work related chiefly to radio activity" — yet he had already, in 1911, deduced the atomic nucleus from alpha-scattering, and had just published the first artificial transmutation of one element into another. In 1919 he took over the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, where James Chadwick found the neutron in 1932 and Cockcroft and Walton split the lithium nucleus with an accelerator the same year; Rutherford was made Baron Rutherford of Nelson in 1931 and is buried in Westminster Abbey, having died in 1937. Element 104, rutherfordium, carries his name, and he appears on New Zealand's hundred-dollar note. The other two entries have aged more quietly: Samuel Rutherford's "Lex, Rex" and his "Letters" are still in print among Reformed readers, and Rutherford, New Jersey, has grown from the 9,497 people counted in 1920 to roughly 18,000, best known now as the lifelong home of the poet William Carlos Williams.
Written for this edition, 2026.