He took on more supervision and less direct research as years went by. In 1931 he was made the first Baron Rutherford of Nelson, allowing him to join the House of Lords. He was fiercely anti-Nazi ...

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New-Zealand-born British physicist who is generally considered to be the father of nuclear physics. This medal comes with a prize of £1,000 and ...

The ashes of the eminent physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin, on 25 October 1937. The ...