Nelson Provincial Museum, Copy Collection:C693
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Studio portrait of Ernest Rutherford, 28 June 1900. Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) aided the allied war effort in 1916 by researching submarine detection and he developed a unidirectional hydrophone which was fitted to ships from 1917. In 1917 Rutherford was part of a joint French-British delegation that travelled to the USA to transfer knowledge to American scientists. He was made Baron Rutherford of Nelson in 1931. |
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