Rutherford, Ernest
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A British physicist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rutherford discovered the existence of atomic nuclei. He proposed the current picture of the atom, in which most of the mass of the atom is in the nucleus, with electrons revolving around the nucleus.
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Ruthenian, ruthenic, ruthenious, ruthenium, Rutherford, Rutherford, Ernest, rutherfordium, Rutherford scattering, ruthful, ruthless, rutidosis
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