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rutherford

/ˈrʌðərfəld/ noun · British & US
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What does rutherford mean?

noun

A Scottish surname, also the name of a unit of radioactivity, the rutherford, and a crater on the Moon. Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist.

Example

"The physicist Ernest Rutherford made significant contributions to the discovery of the nucleus."

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