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	MS Add.7653	See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3	1914-1974: scientific notebooks and letters	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CHAD	NRA 24569
4	corresp (copies)	Science Museum Library and Archives		NRA 9524 Science Museum
5	copy corresp (9 vols)	Science Museum Library and Archives	ARCH: RUTH	See Annual Return 2000
6	1910: corresp with AW Bickerton	Canterbury Museum	27/57	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	CSAC 80.4.81	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	HUT/B6	NRA 33835
12	1902-31: letters to John Joly	Trinity College Dublin	MSS 2289-4838 passim	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	SAM	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	CSAC21/15/74	NRA 18631
20	1900-27: corresp with Joseph John Thomson	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	MSS B179-437; C4-48; C80; H10-34 passim	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	MS Add.10165	See Acc 2017
23	19th-20th cent: family papers	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	GBR/0012/MS Add.10165	See Annual Return 2022