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Ernest Rutherford LOC
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George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
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Public domain
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Ernest Rutherford 1908
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Bain News Service, publisher
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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Ernest Rutherford2
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Sadi Carnot
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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卢瑟福

盧瑟福
Lúsèfú
proper noun #22,816

Meanings

  1. 1 Rutherford (name)
  2. 2 Ernest Rutherford, pioneer of nuclear physics

About Ernest Rutherford

1871–1937 · 科学家 scientist

New Zealand-born physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus by firing alpha particles at gold foil, and proposed the nuclear model of the atom taught in school physics. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Also called  欧内斯特·卢瑟福

Examples

HSK 7-9
卢瑟福发现了原子核的存在。
Lúsèfú fāxiàn le yuánzǐhé de cúnzài.
Rutherford discovered the existence of the atomic nucleus.
HSK 7-9
卢瑟福是核物理学的奠基人之一。
Lúsèfú shì hé wùlǐxué de diànjīrén zhīyī.
Rutherford is one of the founders of nuclear physics.

Tips

culture
Element 104, rutherfordium, got a new character in Chinese: 卢 from his name with the metal radical added, read lú. He is said to have joked that all science is either physics or stamp collecting, yet his own Nobel Prize came in chemistry.

Stroke Order

卢 Lú
瑟 sè
福 fú