Rutherford’s crocodile on the Mond building of the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. The Russian physicist Peter Kapitza called him the crocodile, because “in Russia the crocodile is the symbol for the father of the family and is also regarded with awe and admiration because it has a stiff neck and cannot turn back. It just goes straight forward with gaping jaws– like science, like Rutherford.”
