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rutherford
Definition: a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second
Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
First Baron Rutherford
First Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Definition: British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
Definition: An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.