rutherford   (TTS Sound)

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))