However, I have investigated, gone through all the books I have, rummaged through heaps of online archives, consulted the autobiographies of some of her friends who subsequently became famous Alice Hopkinson or Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin. She followed her parents to Manchester, England in , accompanied them when they moved to Cambridge in , and married Ralph Fowler , a colleague of her father, in Eileen and Ralph had four children, including Ruth.
Thanks to these librairans, I obtained confirmations, dates and even, in some cases, school reports old school reports from Lady Barn House School from the years to what a wonder! I also learned a bit more about Ernest Rutherford's beliefs. It is probably not trivial to send his daughter to non-denominational schools and practicing an educational principle rather revolutionary for the time: the co-education of girls and boys.
The only exception is Withington Girls School, but Eileen was only there for a week. However, despite the invaluable help of the people who answered me, some gray areas remain. Hereinafter cited as "re: Rutherford Family.
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Fryde, D. Greenway, S. Through the mediation of a Cambridge Don, Rutherford was offered use of the University Observatory for more trials. Rutherford succeeded in transmitting a signal from there back to town, a mile away. Science was proving to be both an entertainment and a spectacle. This, too, increased Rutherford's stature, leading to many invitations to lunch, tea, and dinner. Rutherford came to love college life. When he returned to Cambridge in as Cavendish Professor, he typically enjoyed dining at Trinity College every Sunday evening.
He took great pleasure in High Table and in the conviviality of conversation. Ernest and Mary Rutherford married in New Zealand in Firmly established at McGill University, he could now support a family. Rutherford crowed to his mother that Eileen Mary Rutherford had the usual number of limbs and healthy lungs, that Mary was pleased to have a daughter, and he hinted at his pride.
The little family stayed in Montreal until Eileen was six years old, when Rutherford moved them all to Manchester, England. Rutherford expected Mary to run the household and to free him to concentrate on his work, an arrangement common at the time.
At this stage, his ambition often kept him at the university into the evening. Eve, p. That single-minded dedication paid off when Rutherford and Mary travelled to Stockholm in December and he received his Nobel Prize. Mary shared the honor and the rewards. Their house, in a largely Jewish suburb of Manchester, was a two-mile tram ride from his lab at the university. The house was large enough that his friends Otto Hahn and Bertram Boltwood stayed with them during visits to Manchester.
Eileen was then 18 years old. Two years later, Eileen married the mathematician Ralph Fowler, and together they provided two grandsons and two granddaughters to the Rutherfords. The s provided the Rutherfords their most active family time.
But Eileen died in , aged 29, of a blood clot, a week after childbirth. Rutherford took badly the loss of his only child, but he found solace in his grandchildren for his remaining years. Rutherford promoted informal interaction in the lab wherever he presided. The record is strongest on this for his Manchester and Cavendish professorship periods.
Edward Andrade worked under Rutherford at Manchester — and relates that the daily afternoon teas were a "great feature of the laboratory life.
They discussed science, of course, but also literature and "general gossip of the day. The Australian Mark Oliphant, who worked in the Cavendish Lab from to and was Rutherford's last close collaborator, remembered these daily teas.
Oliphant recalled that Lady Rutherford provided the tea, and sometimes even poured the tea, but that the buns sticky were supplied by the researchers.
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