Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

Ernest Rutherford

1871 - 1937

Born

30 August 1871

Spring Grove [Brightwater, New Zealand]

Died

19/10/1937

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Nationality
New Zealand
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
11/06/1903
Relationships
Son of James Rutherford, wheelwright, engineer and flax miller, and his wife Martha Thompson; married (1900, New Zealand) Mary Georgina Newton, daughter of his landlady in Christchurch; one daughter, Eileen, born 1901; she married Ralph Fowler (FRS 1925); grandfather of Peter Fowler (FRS 1964)