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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 26

C A M B R [ D 6 E city of science Lord Rutherford born near Nelson, New Zealand entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1894 as a post-graduate student with an already brilliant record In addition to making successful wireless transmissions over a distance of two miles, he took part in the researches of the great Sir J. J. Thomson, whom he eventually succeeded as Cavendish Professor of Physics: His analysis of the structure of the aton resulted in the discovery that radio-active rays are composed of minute particles, flung off owing to gradual atomic disintegration. This in turn led to one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern age: by means of radio-active bombard- ment; he was able to change nitrogen into oxygen and realize the eternal dream of the alchemist. When he died in 1937 , he and his colleagues had changed the whole concept of physics, and Rutherford 8 influence had penetrated into all branches of electronics: Such revolu- tionary advances are nowhere better appreciated than in the Pye factory and research laboratories, where; ever since the late W. G. Pye started making scientific instruments for the University, the Cam- bridge standards of accuracy and progress have been jealousy main- tained. Pl RADI 0 AN D TE LEVISION P Y E (N E W Z E A LA N D), LIMITE D, P. 0. B 0 X 2 8 3 9, 4 U C KL A N D E4.24 1