Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford NPG P363(19)

© Peter Lofts Photography / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ramsey & Muspratt

Physicist. Born near Nelson, New Zealand, he won an 1851 Scholarship to Cambridge, and made the first successful radio transmissions over two miles. Teaching at McGill University (1898-1907) he discovered that radioactive elements transform into other elements, publishing Radioactivity (1903), and winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908. At Manchester (1907-19) he discovered the atomic nucleus and the artificial transformation of the elements. During the First World War he worked on submarine detection. As director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1919-37), Rutherford supervised experiments... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.