SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD

One of our most eminent physicists who has succeeded Sir J. J. Thomson

as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. The

modern theory of the structure of the atom is largely due to him.]

[Illustration: _Photo: Rischgitz Collection._

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