Rutherford
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- proper noun
- /ˈrʌðərfərd/
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Rutherford
- Ernest Rutherford is known for his groundbreaking work in the field of nuclear physics.
- Ernest Rutherford
- physicist Ernest Rutherford
And that was Rutherford's planetary atom picture.
- And that was Rutherford's planetary atom picture.
Examples
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The very next month, Chadwick, working under Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Oxford, UK, announced the discovery of the neutron.
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Despite being surrounded by brilliant physicists like Rutherford and Chadwick, Oppenheimer was deeply unhappy.
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1917, Rutherford splits the atom.
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In 1985, England built a spallation source, Isis, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton.
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You get to Niels Bohr and his early explanations of, of how atoms might work, following on from Ernest Rutherford in Manchester detecting the atomic nucleus.
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In 1911, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom, which changed our understanding of atomic structure.
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The discoveries of Rutherford laid the foundation for modern atomic physics.
Synonyms
A noble title given to Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand scientist
A British scientist born in New Zealand who discovered the atom's nucleus and proposed a model of the atom
Compounds
A noble title given to Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand scientist
- Archaic
A model where an atom's positive charge and mass are in a tiny central nucleus and electrons orbit it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rutherford is a family name from a place in Scotland, and the second part -ford means a 'shallow river crossing', so the name originally meant someone from a river crossing. That's why when you see Rutherford in science it usually refers to Ernest Rutherford, the scientist who found the small centre of the atom.