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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.
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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
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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.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/bohr_niels_sh.pdf12 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
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Obituaries Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/9 Jul 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903 - 1999) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jeffreys_Bertha/4 Jul 2025: Bertha Swirles had studied both mathematics and physics as an undergraduate, having attended physics courses by Joseph John Thomson and Ernest Rutherford.