Rutherford Definition & Meaning
rutherford
- noun
- a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second
- British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)
- 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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