noun
- A unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second.
- British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819.
- synonyms: Daniel Rutherford
- British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937. ).
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