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Photograph (Gelatine Print) of Ernest Rutherford and Others on Board Ship to Australia, by N. V. Sidgwick, 1914

Inventory Number 94495

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.94495

Item type
Object
Provenance
From N. V. Sidgwick via the Oxford Chemistry Department.
Primary inscriptions
Numbered 13 on back.
Other inscriptions
Later identifying inscription [in E. J. Bowen's hand].
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 161mm Width: 123mm
Inventory No
94495

Description

Gelatine print. Candid portrait or snapshot of Ernest Rutherford, seated three-quarter length, with pipe in mouth, relaxing with other men in a saloon of the ship en route to Australia for the 1914 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; the others are (according to a later inscription on the back, presumably left to right) unknown, Kirkaldy, Rutherford, Lucas, im Thurm.

One of an unusually candid series of photographs featuring Rutherford taken by the Oxford chemist N. V. Sidgwick, who met and became friends with Rutherford on this trip (the others are 25468, 26192, 34685, 99484). For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.

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