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1. Kerr awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Kerr_awards/

   5 Aug 2024: 3. The Rutherford Medal (1993). 3.1. The Rutherford Medal. The Rutherford Medal is named for Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), the New Zealand physicist who is known as "the father ... He could have ended up on our banknotes like Lord Ernest Rutherford.

2. Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bohr_Niels/

   5 Mar 2026: He had intended to spend his entire study period in Cambridge but he did not get on well with Thomson so, after a meeting with Ernest Rutherford in Cambridge in December ... Rutherford became Bohr's role model both for his personal and scientific

3. Lincei Accademia - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Lincei/

   7 Mar 2023: Vallée Poussin and Sierpinski were also elected members. Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Millikan, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford,and Edmund Whittaker were all members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

4. sci_hi PDF (2542k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/bohr_niels_sh.pdf

   12 Dec 2025: J. Thomson. When continuing to the Victoria University of Manchester, Bohr got to know Ernest Rutherford. ... Bohr’s research results met mixed feelings. Ernest Rutherford [9] and Albert Einstein [8] however thought of it as a gigantic breakthrough in

5. Obituaries Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/

   15 Oct 2026: A list of links to Royal Society of London obituaries is at THIS LINK. A list of links to London Mathematical Society obituaries is at THIS LINK.. Astrophysical Journal obituary. Times obituary. Times obituary. Times obituary. Royal Astronomical

6. Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lorentz/

   31 May 2026: The President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, represented the Royal Society and made an appreciative oration by the graveside.

7. Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/RSE/FRSE/

   26 Oct 2024: Ernest George Coker. 1903. ... Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn. 1907. 1903. 1845. 1912. 1928.

8. Niels Henrik David Bohr, Hon.F.R.S.E. - RSE Obituary - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Bohr_Niels_RSE_Obituary/

   7 Mar 2023: Phil. he visited England and in Manchester made his first contact with Ernest Rutherford. ... Rutherford, by brilliant experiment and straightforward reasoning had just demonstrated the existence of the atomic nucleus; in so doing he provided the first

9. Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rydberg/

   5 Mar 2026: Only after Ernest Rutherford had proposed his model of the atom, and Niels Bohr and Max Planck had added a quantum theory approach to the theory of atomic structure, was the

10. William Kermack (1898 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kermack/

    18 Jan 2026: He was taught by William Soddy (1877-1956) who had worked with Ernest Rutherford on radioactivity before being appointed to the chair in Aberdeen in 1914.