🟌️ Ernest Rutherford memorial

New Zealand · Oceania · 41.38°S, 173.10°E

The Ernest Rutherford memorial includes a statue of the New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. It depicts Rutherford as a child, and is located near his birthplace in Brightwater, New Zealand. The sculptor was Paul Walshe of Monaco. The memorial also includes a mound surrounded by terraces with plants and trees from places where he worked: Canada, England and New Zealand. It cost $400,000 and was opened in 1991.

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Quick facts

Country	New Zealand
Continent / region	Oceania
Coordinates (approx.)	41.38°S, 173.10°E · view on map

Ernest Rutherford memorial is located in New Zealand, in Oceania.

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