Search Result:Rutherford
KK Pronunciation
〔 `rʌðLfLd 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˋrʌðәfәd 〕
Overview of noun rutherford
The noun rutherford has 3 senses
- rutherford -- (a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second)
- Rutherford, Daniel Rutherford -- (British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819))
- 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))