Clarke, Simon (Author)
Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Volume: 1
Pages: Approx. 3000 words
Edition Details: http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article010112.html (Accessed on August 30, 2009.)
Language: English
In August 1895 Ernest Rutherford left New Zealand for the first time of his life, bound for England where he was to become a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. He was the first graduate student admitted to Cambridge who had not been an undergraduate there. Under the supervision of Professor J.J. Thomson, he initially investigated the possibilities of detecting electromagnetic waves over distances and through objects, and then later the use of x-rays to make gases conductors of electricity. His talents as a scientist soon recognised, in 1898 Rutherford was offered a position as Professor of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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