Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Rutherford"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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: {Rutherford},
{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: {Rutherford}, {Ernest Rutherford}, {First
Baron Rutherford}, {First Baron Rutherford of Nelson}]
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