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Rutherford crowed to his mother that Eileen Mary Rutherford had the usual number of limbs and healthy lungs, that Mary was pleased to have a daughter, and he hinted at his pride. The little family stayed in Montreal until Eileen was six years old, when Rutherford moved them all to Manchester, England.
When Eileen Mary Rutherford was born in 1901, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, her father, Lord Ernest Rutherford OM FRS HonFRSE, was 30 and her mother, Mary Georgina Newton, was 25. She married Sir Ralph Howard Fowler on 6 December 1921, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters.
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Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand physicist popularly known as the father of nuclear physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.”. He established the fact that radioactivity involved the nuclear transformation of one ...
Her mother, Eileen Mary Rutherford, was the only daughter of physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford and they had four children, with Ruth as the youngest. Her mother died of a blood clot a week after Ruth's birth. University years
Young Rutherford worked in his father's sawmills and flaxmills. Martha Rutherford with Eva and (left to right) Charles, Ernest, Jim, and Herbert, 1885. Ernest was 14. Credit: Tyree, Rutherford family. Rutherford thrived in this hardworking, country-town life, far from the perceived centers of colonial power.
Today we commemorate Sister Eileen Mary Rutherford, who was one of 11 Australian Army Nursing Service nurses to lose their lives when the Centaur was sunk by a Japanese torpedo on 14 May 1943. Their...
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Eileen Mary Rutherford's name is located at panel 96 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan). Roll of Honour circular For the First World War the circulars were forms sent to next of kin seeking details regarding the deceased.
