rutherford
Nouns
- (n) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second
- (n) British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) Daniel Rutherford,
- (n) British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937) Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson,