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RUTHERFORD'S grandfather had been one of the early settlers in New Zealand. His father owned and lived upon a flax farm in a rural district of South Island. Ernest, born in 1871, was the second son and fourth child in a family which was large, even by the more exacting standards of seventy years ago. At the time of his birth the white population of New Zealand was little over a quarter of a million, and twenty years earlier it had been little more than a tenth of this. Nevertheless, owing to the progressive spirit of the early settlers and to their interest in education, Rutherford was able to receive a more than adequate grounding in science, and even to undertake original research, before he left the country at the age of twenty-four.
Lord Rutherford
By Dr. Norman Feather. (‘O.M.’ Series.) Pp. x + 195 + 8 plates. (London, Glasgow and Bombay; Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1940.) 5s. net.
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ROBINSON, H. Lord Rutherford. Nature 147, 724–725 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147724a0
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