rutherford /ruth·er·ford/ (ruth´er-ford) a unit of radioactive disintegration, representing one million disintegrations per second.
rutherford [ruth´er-ford]
Ruth·er·ford (r    r-frd, rth-), Ernest First Baron Rutherford of Nelson. 1871-1937. New Zealand-born British physicist who classified radiation into alpha, beta, and gamma types and discovered the atomic nucleus. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry. |
| ruth·er·ford (rr-frd) n. A unit expressing the rate of decay of radioactive material, equal to one million disintegrations per second. |
rutherford [ruth´er-ford]
a unit of radioactive disintegration, representing one million disintegrations per second.
rutherford
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