rutherford

English Thesaurus

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

instance hypernym	:	physicist,
definition	:	a scientist trained in physics (noun.person)

2. British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	chemist,
definition	:	a scientist who specializes in chemistry (noun.person)

3. a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	radioactivity unit,
definition	:	a measure of radioactivity (noun.quantity)