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feb 5, 1908 - Lord Rutherford

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Along with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909, he carried out the Geiger–Marsden experiment, which demonstrated the nuclear nature of atoms by deflecting alpha particles passing through a thin gold foil.

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feb 5, 1908
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~ 118 years ago