Rutherford

Rutherford may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Rutherford, New South Wales, a suburb of Maitland

Canada

• Mount Rutherford, Jasper National Park
• Rutherford House, in Edmonton, Alberta
• Rutherford Library, University of Alberta

United Kingdom

• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK

United States

• Rutherford, California, in Napa County
  • Rutherford AVA, California wine region in Napa Valley
• Rutherford, New Jersey
• Rutherford, Pennsylvania
• Rutherford, Fairfax County, Virginia
• Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Rutherford County, Tennessee
• Rutherford High School (Florida)
• Rutherford High School (New Jersey)
• Rutherford Institute, a public interest law firm and resource center in Charlottesville, Virginia

People

• Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), 19th president of the United States (1877–1881)
• Rutherford (surname), various people, including:
  • Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, known as the "father of nuclear physics"

In fiction

• Rutherford the Brave, a character from Gamehendge, the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish
• Rutherford, Ohio, fictional setting of the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun

Transportation

• Rutherford GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the community of Maple, Ontario, Canada
• Rutherford (NJT station), a train station on New Jersey Transit's Bergen County Line
• HMS Rutherford (K558), a British frigate in commission in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945

Science

• Rutherford (unit), a unit of radioactivity
• Rutherford scattering, a phenomenon in physics which led to the development of the Rutherford model (or planetary model) of the atom and eventually to the Bohr model
• Rutherford (lunar crater), a small impact crater on the Moon‍ '​s far side
• Rutherford, a crater on Mars

Economics

• R & I.S. Rutherford Brothers of St John's, issued the first traders' Halfpenny tokens for Newfoundland in 1841

Colleges

• Rutherford College (disambiguation), more than one college

Other uses

• The Rutherford Journal, an academic journal

See also

• John Rutherfoord
• Rutherfurd (disambiguation)