Definition of Ernest rutherford

1. Noun. British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ernest Rutherford

Erivan
Erlang
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erlenmeyer
Erlenmeyer flask
Erlenmeyer flasks
Erma
Ermengarde
Ermin
Ermins
Ernest
Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Solvay
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Ernest Walton
Ernestine
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Ernesto
Ernesto Guevara
Ernst
Ernst Abbe
Ernst Boris Chain
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Weber
Ernst Lubitsch

Literary usage of Ernest rutherford

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1. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"The subject of radioactivity entered upon a new stage when, in 1900, Sir Ernest Rutherford, then professor in Montreal, began an intensive study of the ..."

2. Catalogue by Dartmouth College, Florida Southern College (1903)
"PHILOSOPHY — Stanwood Cobb, ernest rutherford Groves. ... PHILOSOPHY — Ernest Rutherford Groves. JUNIORS PHYSICS — Arthur Isaac Charron, Henry Munroe Hall. ..."

3. Eminent Chemists of Our Time by Benjamin Harrow (1920)
"ernest rutherford: Radioactivity [Encycl. Britannica, 22, 794 (1911)]. 7. ... ernest rutherford: Radioactive Substances and their Radiations (Cambridge ..."

4. Eminent Chemists of Our Time by Benjamin Harrow (1920)
"ernest rutherford: Radioactivity [Encycl. Britannica, 22, 794 (19")]. 7. ... ernest rutherford: Radioactive Substances and their Radiations (Cambridge ..."

5. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb by F. G. Gosling (1999)
"Not surprisingly, ernest rutherford, Albert Einstein, and Niels Bohr regarded particle bombardment as useful in furthering knowledge of nuclear physics but ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The Friday afternoon session was given to a lecture by Sir ernest rutherford, FRS, of the University of Manchester, Eng., "On X-ray and Gamma-ray Spectra," ..."

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