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This NFU film looks at the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ernest Rutherford, from Sounds farm-boy to leading Cambridge University's legendary Cavendish Laboratory. Described by Einstein as "a second Newton", the atom splitter is renowned as one of the founders of modern atomic physics. Here attention is paid to Rutherford's colonial upbringing and education, and the impetus to experiment this provided him with. He famously said of Kiwi ingenuity, "we don't have the money, so we have to think". Rutherford is voiced by actor Grant Tilly.
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Television, 1977 (Full Length Episode)
Features Grant Tilly as Reverend Williams
Film, 2008 (Excerpts)
Evolutionary: A doco on another world-changing NZ scientist
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Outstanding Website
The ONYAs 2010
Best Entertainment Website
Finalist – Website design
Qantas Media Awards 2009
NZ ON SCREEN 2010
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