Found 1 items, similar to rutherford.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: rutherford rutherford n 1: a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second 2: British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) [syn: Daniel Rutherford ] 3: British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937) [syn: Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford , First Baron Rutherford of Nelson]