Royal Society of London in 1946, president of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1947 and the Rutherford Memorial Lecture in 1948. In 1961 he chaired the Rutherford Jubilee Conference in Manchester, which celebrated 50 years since Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Silver Jubilee and King's Birthday Honours. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1946 New Year Honours and a Knight Bachelor in the 1958 New Year Honours, for services to science. Honorific eponyms The Marsden Fund for basic research in New Zealand was set up in 1994. Massey University has named a major lecture theatre after him. References External links University of Canterbury (NZ) biography of Marsden Biography in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Address in Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand The Marsden Fund 1889 births 1970 deaths English physicists New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society New Zealand physicists British Army personnel of World War I New Zealand people of World War II New Zealand nuclear physicists British nuclear physicists Victoria University of Wellington faculty People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn People from Rishton Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand British emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand recipients of the Military Cross New Zealand Knights Bachelor New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People associated with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand) 20th-century New Zealand scientists 20th-century English scientists Alumni of the University of Manchester Royal Engineers soldiers