Lord Nelson

Rutherford continued to do research until his death, but the proton was his last big discovery. It was not, however, his last big honor. In 1931, the New Zealand country boy was raised to the peerage with the official name of Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson. After his death six years later, he was awarded one last honor. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where he keeps company with Isaac Newton and a handful of other great British scientists. 

E. Rutherford, The electrical structure of matter, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report (1923) 1-24. This work is not included in J. Chadwick (ed.), The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, 3 vols. (London, 1963). 

Rutherford won many awards for his work as a scientist and teacher. He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 and was knighted in 1914. In 1919 he became the Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge. He was made Lord Rutherford of Nelson in 1931. Rutherford died at Cambridge on October 19, 1937. see also Bohr, Niels Marsden, Ernest Soddy, Frederick Thomson, Joseph John. 

Lord Nelson rich, dark blue flowers. 

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