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1. (n.) Rutherford
Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist.

2. Rutherford
Ernest (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson), 1871–1937, English physicist, born in New Zealand: Nobel prize for chemistry 1908.

Etymology: (1969; named in honor of E. Rutherford ; see -ium²)

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1. (noun) rutherford
a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second

2. (noun) Rutherford, Daniel Rutherford
British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)

3. (noun) Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson
British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)

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