Rutherford (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
  2. English physicist, born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1908.
  3. U.S. racing-car driver.
  4. U.S. leader of Jehovah's Witnesses.
  5. British actress.
  6. a city in NE New Jersey.
noun
  1. a unit of activity equal to the quantity of a radioactive nuclide required to produce one million disintegrations per second
noun
  1. Ernest, 1st Baron. 1871–1937, British physicist, born in New Zealand, who discovered the atomic nucleus (1909). Nobel prize for chemistry 1908
  2. Dame Margaret . 1892–1972, British stage and screen actress. Her films include Passport to Pimlico (1949), Murder She Said (1962), and The VIPs (1963)
  3. Mark, original name William Hale White . 1831–1913, British novelist and writer, whose work deals with his religious uncertainties: best known for The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881) and the novel The Revolution in Tanner's Lane (1887)
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