Rutherford
Encyclopedia

Places

Australia
  • Rutherford, New South Wales, a suburb of Maitland


Canada
  • Mount Rutherford
    Mount Rutherford
    Mount Rutherford is a mountain in Alberta, Canada. Located in Jasper National Park, it is part of the Northern Front Ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

    , Jasper National Park
  • Rutherford House
    Rutherford House
    Rutherford House was the home of the first Premier of Alberta, Alexander Cameron Rutherford from 1911 to 1941. It is now an Alberta Provincial Historic Site.-Overview:...

    , in Edmonton, Alberta
  • Rutherford Library
    Rutherford Library
    Rutherford Library is the first free-standing University of Alberta library, opened May 15, 1951, and named after the founder of the university, and long-time chancellor, Alexander Cameron Rutherford.-Overview:...

    , University of Alberta


United Kingdom
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
    Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
    The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council . It is located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus at Chilton near Didcot in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom...

    , Oxfordshire, UK


United States
  • Rutherford, California, in Napa County
    • Rutherford AVA
      Rutherford AVA
      The Rutherford AVA is an American Viticultural Area located within Napa Valley AVA and centered around the town of Rutherford, California. The area is known for its unique terroir particularly with its Cabernet Sauvignon. The well drained soil of this area is composition of gravel, loam and sand...

      , California wine region in Napa Valley
  • Rutherford, New Jersey
    Rutherford, New Jersey
    Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 18,061. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....

  • Rutherford, Pennsylvania
    Rutherford, Pennsylvania
    Rutherford is a census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,859 at the 2000 census...

  • Rutherford, Fairfax County, Virginia
  • Rutherford County, North Carolina
    Rutherford County, North Carolina
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 62,899 people, 25,191 households, and 17,935 families residing in the county. The population density was 112 people per square mile . There were 29,535 housing units at an average density of 52 per square mile...

  • Rutherford County, Tennessee
    Rutherford County, Tennessee
    Rutherford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, it is the state's fifth-largest county by population with 262,604 people, an increase of 44.3 percent over the 2000 population of 182,023. Its county seat is Murfreesboro, which is also the geographic...

  • Rutherford High School (Florida)
    Rutherford High School (Florida)
    Rutherford High School is a public high school in Panama City, Florida, United States.The school, which describes itself as the "Home of the Rams" and is a part of the Bay District Schools, opened its doors in 1961 as the second high school in Bay County. The school held its first graduation...

  • Rutherford High School (New Jersey)
  • Rutherford Institute
    Rutherford Institute
    The Rutherford Institute is a non-profit group based in Charlottesville, Virginia dedicated to the defense of civil liberties, human rights, and religious liberty. It was founded in 1982 by John W. Whitehead...

    , a public interest law firm and resource center in Charlottesville, Virginia

People

  • Rutherford (surname)
    Rutherford (surname)
    The surname Rutherford, also Rutherfurd, is a Scottish and Northern English habitational surname deriving from a place in the Scottish borders region near Roxburgh...

    , including a list of people with the surname
  • Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...

    , (1871-1937), atomic chemist and physicist.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
    Rutherford B. Hayes
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

     (1822–1893), 19th president of the United States (1877–1881)

In fiction

  • 'Rutherford the Brave', a character from Gamehendge
    Gamehendge
    Gamehendge is the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish. Most of the songs can be traced back to The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday , the senior thesis of guitarist and primary vocalist Trey Anastasio, written while he attended Goddard College in 1987...

    , a fictional setting by Phish
  • Rutherford, Ohio, fictional setting of 3rd Rock from the Sun
    3rd Rock from the Sun
    3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet...


Other

  • Rutherford (unit)
    Rutherford (unit)
    The rutherford is an obsolete unit of radioactivity, defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second. It is therefore equivalent to one megabecquerel. It was named after Ernest Rutherford. It is not an SI unit....

    , a unit of radioactivity
  • Rutherford scattering
    Rutherford scattering
    In physics, Rutherford scattering is a phenomenon that was explained by Ernest Rutherford in 1911, and led to the development of the Rutherford model of the atom, and eventually to the Bohr model. It is now exploited by the materials analytical technique Rutherford backscattering...

  • Rutherford (crater)
    Rutherford (crater)
    Rutherford may refer to:* Rutherford * Rutherford...

  • Rutherford GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the community of Maple, Ontario, Canada.
  • Rutherford College (disambiguation)
  • Rutherford (NJT station)
    Rutherford (NJT station)
    Rutherford is a New Jersey Transit train station served by the Bergen County Line. It is located in Rutherford, New Jersey at the junction of Park Avenue, Union Avenue, Erie Avenue and Orient Way. The junction is known as Station Square. The rail tracks serve as a border between Rutherford and...

    , a train station on New Jersey Transit's Bergen County Line
  • The Rutherford Journal
    The Rutherford Journal
    The Rutherford Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the history and philosophy of science and technology.It publishes invited articles and is edited by Jack Copeland . The journal is published annually, starting from December 2005...

    , an academic journal
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