Rutherfordian

  1. Adjective.  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford.
  2. Adjective.  (context, specifically) Of or pertaining to Ernest Rutherford, his planetary model of the atom (called the Rutherford model), or predictions made on the basis of this model.

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