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Rutherford, Ernest, (1871-1937), Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist

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Surname: Rutherford
Forenames: Ernest
Gender: Male
Date: 1871-1937
Title: Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Biography: ODNB link for Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937) Baron Rutherford of Nelson, physicist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P166591 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P25026 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Ernest Rutherford
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp
See information in published source
See Lawrence Badash, Rutherford corresp catalog, 1974
2
1893-1938: corresp, notebooks and papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3
1914-1974: scientific notebooks and letters
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
NRA 24569
4
corresp (copies)
Science Museum Library and Archives
NRA 9524 Science Museum
5
copy corresp (9 vols)
Science Museum Library and Archives
See Annual Return 2000
6
1910: corresp with AW Bickerton
Canterbury Museum
NRA 36329 Bickerton
7
1912-37: corresp with Niels Bohr (188 items)
Niels Bohr Archive
8
1904-24: letters (94) to BB Boltwood
Yale University Libraries: Sterling Memorial Library
9
1914-21: corresp with Lord Cherwell
Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
NRA 16447
10
1907-24: letters (13) to GE Hale
California Institute of Technology Archives
11
1932-37: corresp (c20 items) with RS Hutton
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
NRA 33835
12
1902-31: letters to John Joly
Trinity College Dublin
NRA 21060 Joly
13
1908-37: corresp with Thomas Laby
University of Melbourne Archives
See Guide 1983 p176
14
1904-25: corresp with Sir Joseph Larmor (39 items)
Royal Society
15
1929-34: letters (41) to Sir Owen Richardson
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
NRA 22337 Richardson
16
letters (70) to Royal Institution
Royal Institution of Great Britain
NRA 9522
17
1935-37: letters to Herbert Samuel
Parliamentary Archives
NRA 11187
18
1906-30: letters (43) to Sir Arthur Schuster
Royal Society
19
1933-37: corresp with Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (14 items)
Oxford University: Lincoln College Archives
NRA 18631
20
1900-27: corresp with Joseph John Thomson
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 23828 Thomson
21
1913-23: letters to AB Wood
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See Accessions to Repositories 1984
22
c1900-2000: letters and a barony; incl letters and papers rel to mathematician Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (1889-1944)
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See Acc 2017
23
19th-20th cent: family papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See Annual Return 2022