rutherford

Noun rutherford has 3 senses

• rutherford(n = noun.quantity) - a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second;
is a kind of radioactivity unit

• rutherford(n = noun.person) daniel rutherford - British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819);
is a kind of chemist

• rutherford(n = noun.person) 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);
is a kind of physicist