Research student at the Cavendish Laboratory
· Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain in the United States; no known copyright restrictions on use (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress) · file Rutherford left New Zealand for postgraduate research under J. J. Thomson at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, beginning his British scientific career. Coordinates represent the historic Cavendish Laboratory on Free School Lane.