November Gallery

E. Rutherford in the Cavendish Laboratory

The New Zealand born physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937, right) seen in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. Rutherford became director of this laboratory in 1919 and in the same year he announced one of his major discoveries. He showed that the structure of an atom could be changed (nuclear transmutation) by bombarding it with alpha particles. He was also involved (1934) in the first nuclear fusion reaction in which tritium was the end product of deuterium nuclei collisions. He is considered to be the father of nuclear physics and in 1908 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry

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1992 Australian GP

ADELAIDE STREET CIRCUIT, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 08: Riccardo Patrese sitting on the front wheel of one of the Williams FW14B Renaults with members of the team gathered behind during the Australian GP at Adelaide Street Circuit on November 08, 1992 in Adelaide Street Circuit, Australia. (Photo by Ercole Colombo / Studio Colombo)

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