As Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill (1898-1907), Rutherford, in collaboration with Frederick Soddy, made fundamental discoveries respecting radioactivity which made McGill, in that period, an important center of research in atomic physics. Subsequently director of the Physical Laboratory at Manchester (1907-19) and of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge (1919-37), he became a world authority in his field and published numerous papers and several books. His honours included the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1908) and the Presidency of the Royal Society (1925-9). He died in London and was buried at Westminster Abbey.