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Rutherford

noun

A unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second.

British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819). Synonym: Daniel Rutherford.

British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937). Synonyms: Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson.

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"Rutherford" Quotes from Famous Books

... going out. You mind the old ship? We had a fire in the hold, and the skipper he would go down alone to locate it before we cut a hole in the deck and shipped the hose in. The old man did not come up again. Ye mind him. Old Rutherford of Jarrow. And I went down and looked for him. It was a hell of smoke and fire, and something in the cargo stinking like—like hell fire as it burnt. I got a hold of the old man, and was fetching him out on my hands and knees, when something busts up and sends us all ...

— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman

... process or way on which he himself has gone. 'The author herewith giveth thee the best jewel that he hath.' And a true jewel it is, as the present speaker will testify. If The True Repentance has a fault at all it is the fault of Rutherford's Letters. For the taste of some of his readers Behmen, like Rutherford, draws rather too much on the language and the figures of the married life in setting forth the love of CHRIST to the espoused soul, and the love of the espoused ...

— Jacob Behmen - an appreciation • Alexander Whyte

... Lord Rutherford when at the Bar put an illustration to the Bench in connection with a church case. "Suppose the Justiciary Court condemned a man to be hanged, however unjustly, could that man come into this Court of Session and ask ...

— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton

... for students (notably Soddy and Rutherford) to find that radio-activity, or spontaneous discharge out of the atomic systems, was not confined to radium. Not only are other rare metals conspicuously active, but it is found that such familiar surfaces ...

— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... Abraham Lincoln, who said as early as 1836, "I go for all sharing the privileges of the Government who assist in bearing its burdens—by no means excluding women," and later utterances indicated that he did not change his position. Rutherford B. Hayes never hesitated to express his approval in private conversation, and in 1872 he assisted materially in placing in the Republican National Platform the nearest approach to an indorsement which the movement ever has received from that ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

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