ruther

ruth er |ˈrəT͟Hər ˈrəðər | ▶adverb nonstandard spelling of rather, used in representing dialectal speech: I'd ruther walk. Compare with druther.

Rutherford, Dame Margaret

Ruth er ford, Dame Margaret |ˈrəðərfərd ˈrəT͟Hərfərd | (1892 –1972 ), English actress. Chiefly remembered for her roles as a formidable but jovial eccentric, she won an Academy Award for The VIPs (1963 ).

Rutherford, Sir Ernest

Ruth er ford, Sir Ernest |ˈrəT͟Hərfərd ˈrəðərfərd |, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871 –1937 ), New Zealand physicist, regarded as the founder of nuclear physics. Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1908 ).

rutherfordium

ruth er for di um |ˌrəT͟Hərˈfôrdēəm ˌrəðərˈfɔrdiəm | ▶noun the chemical element of atomic number 104, a very unstable element made by high-energy atomic collisions. (Symbol: Rf ) ORIGIN 1960s: modern Latin, named after E. Rutherford (see Rutherford, Sir Ernest ).

Rutherford, Dame Margaret

Rutherford, Dame Margaret |ˈrʌðəfəd | (1892 –1972 ), English actress. Chiefly remembered for her roles as a formidable but jovial eccentric, she won an Oscar for The VIPs (1963 ).

Rutherford, Sir Ernest

Rutherford, Sir Ernest |ˈrʌðəfəd |, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871 –1937 ), New Zealand physicist, regarded as the founder of nuclear physics. As a result of his experiments on the scattering of alpha particles, he proposed that the positive charge in an atom, and virtually all its mass, is concentrated in a central nucleus. He also performed the first artificial transmutation of matter. Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1908 ).

rutherfordium

rutherfordium |ˌrʌðəˈfɔːdɪəm | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the chemical element of atomic number 104, a very unstable element made by high-energy atomic collisions. (Symbol: Rf ) ORIGIN 1960s: modern Latin, named after E. Rutherford (see Rutherford, Sir Ernest ).

Rutherford

Ru ther ford Eigenname |ˈraðɐfət |englischer Physiker

Rutherfordium

Ru ther for di um Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Rutherf o rdium rʌðə …|nach dem englischen Physiker E. Rutherford, 1871 –1937 künstlich hergestelltes chemisches Element; ein Transuran Rf