SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 8

SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD

I RECEIVES HIGH SCIENTIFIC I APPOINTMENT. ' ' | .By Telegrai'h—Tress Association i '• New Plymouth, April 14. ! Mr. James Rutherfo'd, of New I'lyj Booth, received a cable' message to-day' ' atating that his son, Sir Ernest Rutherford, the distinguished.scientist, has been : appointed Director of Physics at Caven- : dish' Laboratories; Cambridge University. ' Sir Ernest Rutherford,' who gained tho i Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908, was j on the Imperial Board of Munitions set i up by the British Government, and' in ! that 'capacity rendered signal service. He i also wa? able to give material aid to the i United States in connection with sub- ! marine and other services. Christchuroh, 14. I News has been received here that Sir : Ernest Rutherford lias been b iven the CavAndisli Professorship in Physics at | Cambridge—the highest scientific appoint- ; roent in the English-speaking worid. ! Sir Ernest Rutherford is a native of ' Nelson, New Zealand, and was born in ! I 1871. He was. educated in Nelson and Chratchiwch prior to going to Cam- : bridge, and has been the Recipient of I numerous honours from various groat j scientific bodies. He is -ecognised ass !. one of the foremost authorities in the ! world on radio-activity and related divii sioas of physical sciencc. Since 1007 he ; has held the position of Langworthy Pro--1 fessor and Director of Physical Laboratori jes at the University of Manchester. He I previously held a Professorship of Physics I at the M'Gill University, Montreal.