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

1 sense of ernest rutherford

Sense 1
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)