SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1919, Page 4

SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD.

AN IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT, A cable was received yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. James Rutherford, of New I lymouth, that their distinguished eon. fair imest Rutherford, has been appoint' ed Professor and Director of Physics to the Cavendish. Laboratories of ,Camhighest post in the world that can be brilliant New Zealander is to be congratulated, also his parents, u^S,

Sir Ernest Rutherford was bora in Nelson in 1871, and is therefore 48 war. J Havelock, and, gaining a Bcholaraato, heW proceeded to Nelson CoUege? whe« a> l n ™T y l . SUt ? SBfu, ' I**?"** going to Christchurch College and attending htl n T Bity lecture * Kraduat ng w?th bonors be went to Cambridge Unlversity, and entered Trinity College, and' E^ 11 reßearch at the <*™dJih has now b,een appointed. firSY eCei r d the MA - **"• witl. hrst-class honors in mathematics and S,T T nce sch °l»™hip, 189*. At Cambridge he took the B'A. research ■tZ*\™ tLe Cou studentsup 1987j was awarded tho D.Sc. by the New Zealand University in 1001; the van!, - °w- the Universities of Penwlyv.- K lSCo , nßin ' M ' QiU ' Birmingham and Ldmburgh for his research and dis*hn?*i *l , conne,!tio n with radium, «lnlst he had honors showered on him by various Universities on the Ooßtinent, and was given tho Nobel priai for chemistry in 1908. ?% . 18 ? 8 he was appointed Profenor « Physics to M'Gill. University. Cta- • "da, remaining in that poaitiou till 1907. * whe„ he accepted the appointment of -angworthy Professor and Director «! Uiysics of the laboratories at the University of Manchester. He was on the Board of Invention. set up by the British Government :n connection with the war, and in (hat capacity rendered signal service. The British Government placed his service* f at the disposal of the United States when it entered the war, and lie was A able to find solutions for some grave 4 problems that had arisen in respect to submarine and other devices. In 1900 lie married the eldest daughter of M r. A Newton, of Christdnuk 'tad Lai one daughter.