rutherford Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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