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Rutherford
Rutherford , borough (1990 pop. 17,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of the New York City-N New Jersey metropolitan area; inc. 1881. Several pre-Revolutionary houses remain there.
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Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford 1869-1942, American sectarian leader, b. Missouri. He became leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Russellites) after the death of the sect's founder, Charles T. Russell , in 1916. Under the direction of Rutherford the Witnesses' attack on the existing social ...
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William Hale White
William Hale White pseud. Mark Rutherford, 1831-1913, English novelist. He studied to become a clergyman, but instead became (1854) a clerk in the admiralty, rising in 1879 to assistant director of naval contracts. The son of a dissenter, White gives in his novels a poignant account of his spir...
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William Rutherford Mead
William Rutherford Mead 1846-1928, American architect, b. Brattleboro, Vt. He entered the office of Russell Sturgis in New York City. In 1872 he began to practice architecture with C. F. McKim , and their partnership was joined by Stanford White in 1879 to make the famous firm of McKim, Mead, ...
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Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford 1600-1661, Scottish clergyman. His Exercitationes apologeticae pro divina gratia (1636), urging a Calvinist view of grace against Arminianism (see under Arminius, Jacobus ), caused his suspension from his living at Anwoth on the charge of nonconformity to the Acts of Episcopacy...
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Robert Rutherford McCormick
Robert Rutherford McCormick 1880-1955, American journalist, b. Chicago. He held local public offices, was admitted (1907) to the bar, and practiced law in Chicago. He worked with his brother, Joseph Medill McCormick, in the management of the Chicago Tribune, and, after serving in World War I, he ...
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alpha particle
alpha particle one of the three types of radiation resulting from natural radioactivity . Alpha radiation (or alpha rays) was distinguished and named by E. R. Rutherford in 1909, who found by measuring the charge and mass of alpha particles that they are the nuclei of ordinary helium atoms. Alpha ...
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Sir James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick 1891-1974, English physicist, grad. Manchester Univ., 1908. He worked at Manchester under Ernest Rutherford on radioactivity. He was assistant director of radioactive research in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1923-35), professor at the Univ. of Liverpool (1935-48), and mas...
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Delaware
Delaware dĕl´ewâr, -wer , city (1990 pop. 20,030), seat of Delaware co., central Ohio, on the Olentangy River; inc. as a city 1903. A trade center in a fertile farm area, it also has some manufacturing. Ohio Wesleyan Univ. is in Delaware, which is also the birthplace of President R...
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Johannes Wilhelm Geiger
Johannes Wilhelm Geiger (Hans Geiger) , 1882-1945, German physicist. Geiger received a doctorate in physics at Erlangen in 1906, then went to Manchester, where he assisted British chemist Ernest Rutherford . They devised an alpha-particle counter that permitted great strides in research on radioa...
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