Rutherford (unit)
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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.
Atomic nucleus
The nucleus is the very dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom. It was discovered in 1911, as a result of Ernest Rutherford's interpretation of the famous 1909 Rutherford experiment performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of Rutherford. The...
decay per second
Second
The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock....
. It is therefore equivalent to one megabecquerel. It was named after Ernest Rutherford. It is not an SI unit.