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THE fourth Rutherford Memorial Lecture of the Physical Society will be given by Dr. Ernest Marsden on Decenafber 14, at 5 p.m., at the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, S.W.7. Dr. Marsden was formerly professor of physics at Victoria University College, Wellington, and until recently secretary of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research ; he is at present in London acting as scientific adviser to the High Commissioner of New Zealand and to the New Zealand Government. Dr. Marsden was closely associated with Rutherford in the experiments leading to the conception of the nuclear theory of atomic constitution and also in those leading to the demonstration of the disintegration of nitrogen by a-particles ; he has collected much information on the early family and student life of Lord Rutherford in New Zealand. His lecture will deal with some of these early memories and will show how Rutherford's inspiring personality influenced his research staff. A film will be shown entitled "Transformation of Elements", demonstrating the early experiments which led to the idea of the nuclear atom.
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Physical Society : Rutherford Memorial Lecture. Nature 164, 906 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164906b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164906b0