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Rutherford in American English
a unit for measuring radioactive decay, equal to the mass (of a given substance) required to give off one million disintegrations per second; one million becquerels: symbol, rd
ErnestBaron Rutherford of Nelson 1871-1937; Brit. physicist, born in New Zealand

Rutherford in British English
noun: a unit of activity equal to the quantity of a radioactive nuclide required to produce one million disintegrations per second
noun: Ernest, 1st Baron. 1871–1937, British physicist, born in New Zealand, who discovered the atomic nucleus (1909). Nobel prize for chemistry 1908

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