English noun: rutherford | |||
1. | rutherford (quantity) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | ||
Broader (hypernym) | radioactivity unit | ||
2. | Rutherford (person) British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) | ||
Synonyms | Daniel Rutherford | ||
Instance hypernym | chemist | ||
3. | Rutherford (person) British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937) | ||
Synonyms | Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson | ||
Instance hypernym | physicist | ||