Rutherford Centennial Medal

Rutherford Centennial medal. Proof finish. Bronze; 38mm diameter [set into plastic glued onto cardboard mount]. Milled edge, marked [tree, 71.P]. Issued by the Franklin Mint, 1971 upon the centenary of birth 30 August 1871 of Lord Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937). Obverse, HS portrait of Rutherford, facing half right; inscribed Ernest, Lord Rutherford, O.M., F.R.S., physicist; lleft, 1871-1937; lright, shows shield with a bird encircled by rays of light. Reverse, motif in style of whirring atom with shields; inscribed, top: born Nelson New Zealand 1871; left, Nobel Prize 1908; right, President the Royal Society 1925-30; bottom, McGill 1898-1907 [left] Manchester 1907-1919 [right] 1919-1937 Cavendish Laboratory [shield in centre of motif]; Nullius in verba; Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Card reads: obverse: Centenary of the birth of Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson nuclear physicist. Born Richmond, Nelson NZ 30 8 1871 buried Westminster Abbey London 1937; reverse, This Franklin bronze medal proof finish was issued by the Royal Society of New Zealand August 1971