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

Type of: physicist

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