MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 077 - LORD RUTHERFORD OF NELSON (1871-1937)

PHYSICIST

Ernest Rutherford was appointed Director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1919 where he specialised in nuclear physics, having previously been Professor of Physics, McGill University 1898-1907 and Manchester University 1907-19

    Handwritten letter from Sir J J Thomson, October 29th, 1908

    Personal bank book (Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company Ltd) covering an account in Fallowfield, Manchester, from 1922-33 (Restricted access)

    J T Bottomley's "Four figure mathematical tables" - an annotated copy used by Rutherford

See also a letter from Rutherford to Sir Leonard Huxley, April 3, 1935 in MS 102/1/3

See also MS 072

8 cm