Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rutherford

3 senses of rutherford

Sense 1
rutherford -- (a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second)
       => radioactivity unit -- (a measure of radioactivity)

Sense 2
Rutherford, Daniel Rutherford -- (British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819))
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist -- (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 3
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))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)