(Out of print)
February 1999
$19.95
88pp, Paperback
240 x 170 mm, 16 colour & 72 B&W photos
ISBN 0-908812-89-2
Ernest Rutherford is a Kiwi icon and widely regarded internationally as the greatest experimental scientist of the century, but the medals awarded to him for his achievements are far less familiar. The collection of 36 medals, including the Nobel Prize Medal for Natural Science 1902, awarded to him in 1908, was gifted by his widow to Canterbury University College after Lord Rutherford died in 1937. After years of obscurity, the medals are to be the subject of a series of exhibitions in 1999, beginning at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch.