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

Type of: physicist

Encyclopedia: Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson