18 Mar 2018

Ernest Lord Rutherford's progeny Mary Fowler

From Sunday Morning, 8:35 am on 18 March 2018

Dr Mary Fowler has science in her DNA. She's the great granddaughter of Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson, the New Zealand scientist considered the father of nuclear physics. But Mary Fowler has paved her own path despite the genes, she's an award-winning geophysicist and Master of Darwin College in Cambridge. She was in NZ recently to open the new $220 million Rutherford Regional Science and Innovation Centre at the University of Canterbury.