Portrait of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
1932
- Title
- Portrait of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- History of Science Beyond Caltech
- Identifier
- 50.8-47
- Dates
- 1932
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Photograph of a 1932 oil on canvas portrait of Ernest Rutherford, done by New Zealand-born, British portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952), the original of which hangs in the Royal Society’s Burlington House, London. New Zealander Rutherford won the 1908 Nobel Prize for chemistry.