| Annual Folder Note - One Hundred Dollars First issued 2004 Folder issues only Governor - Dr Alan E Bollard |
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| Lord Rutherford of Nelson | |||
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| ND2004, Prefix AA only (1000 pieces only) | ND2005, Prefix AA-CB | ||
| Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was a nuclear physicist. He was known as the "father" of nuclear physics, he pioneered the orbital theory of the atom, in his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with the gold foil experiment. Rutherford was born on 30/08/1871 at Spring Grove, Brightwater, near Nelson, New Zealand. He studied at Nelson College and graduated from Canterbury College, University of New Zealand in 1895, after gaining his BA, MA and BSc. Rutherford travelled to England for postgraduate study at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1895-1898). There, he briefly held the world record for the distance over which electromagnetic waves could be detected. During the investigation of radioactivity he coined the terms alpha, beta, and gamma rays. In 1908, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was knighted in 1914. He was admitted to the Order of Merit in 1925 and in 1931 was created Baron Rutherford of Nelson of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge, a title which became extinct upon his death on 19/10/1937. | |||
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| ND2006, AA-CB | Mohua Yellowhead Bird | ||
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