Ernest Rutherford 1871 1937

A DigitalNZ Story by Donna Robertson

'We haven't the money, so we've got to think'. New Zealand chemist and physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford was born 30 August 1871 in Spring Creek, Nelson. Read his biography at http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3r37/1 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

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Ernest Rutherford

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Sir Ernest Rutherford

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[Sir Ernest Rutherford]

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Ernest Rutherford stamp

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