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Rutherford
[ ruhth-er-ferd, ruhth- ]
noun
- Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- Ernest 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 1871–1937, English physicist, born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1908.
- John Sherman Johnny, born 1938, U.S. racing-car driver.
- Joseph Franklin, 1869–1942, U.S. leader of Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Dame Margaret, 1892–1972, British actress.
- a city in NE New Jersey.
Rutherford
1/ ˈrʌðəfəd /
noun
- RutherfordErnest, 1st Baron18711937MBritishNew ZealandSCIENCE: physicist Ernest , 1st Baron. 1871–1937, British physicist, born in New Zealand, who discovered the atomic nucleus (1909). Nobel prize for chemistry 1908
- RutherfordMargaret18921972FBritishTHEATRE: stage actressFILMS AND TV: actress Dame Margaret . 1892–1972, British stage and screen actress. Her films include Passport to Pimlico (1949), Murder She Said (1962), and The VIPs (1963)
- RutherfordMark18311913MBritishWRITING: novelistWRITING: writer 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)
rutherford
2/ ˈrʌðəfəd /
noun
- a unit of activity equal to the quantity of a radioactive nuclide required to produce one million disintegrations per second rd
Rutherford
/ rŭth′ər-fərd /
- New Zealand-born British physicist who was a pioneer of subatomic physics. He discovered the atomic nucleus and named the proton. Rutherford demonstrated that radioactive elements give off three types of rays, which he named alpha, beta, and gamma, and invented the term half-life to measure the rate of radioactive decay. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908.
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Now that the virus is mostly gone, their immune systems may be “forgetting” the disease, Rutherford said.
That attorney, Rutherford charges, asked him for $300,000 to “walk away and keep it under wraps.”
When questioned, Rutherford has insisted the two roomed together has a harmless means of saving money.
New Jersey also made sure East Rutherford is not getting full property-tax payments from the Giants/Jets owners for the land.
Now that Mubarak is gone, Rutherford said, Americans are hoping for a successor government that will have popular support.
The initial syllables of Ulysses and of Rutherford make an inclusion by sound.
Why could not he stop at Rutherford like his father and his father's father, and see to the farm?
My name is Gloria Rutherford and I can't do anything but play tennis, drink gin and drive a car.
He it was who, attracted by Rutherford's fame, had thus come in disguise to see him in the privacy of his own home.
Fremont of course is justly proud of the name and fame of Rutherford B. Hayes.
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