RUTHERFORD OF NELSON

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Year

1972

NFU Picture/Sheet No.

402

Length

Colour 19 mins. 35mm 1,750 ft.

Cat. Refs. 1973 p.43; 1977 p.35; 1984-85 p.23; 1986-87 p.28.

Viewing copies

BITC VHS (Preview video)- BITC 301

Full Description

The nuclear physicist, Ernest Rutherford, was born in colonial New Zealand in1871. Throughout his brilliant scientific career, culminated by his splitting of the atom, he never lost touch with his origins. 'Rutherford of Nelson' traces the man's life and work, and its theme, is the continuing contact Rutherford kept with his homeland.

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