jun 16, 1911 - -Ernest Rutherford was responsible for creating the Rutherford atomic structure in 1911 by making the discovery that nearly the total mass of the atom was located in the nucleus. Rutherford discovered this using his well known gold-foil experiment, demonstrating that the atom has a heavy nucleus. Rutherford's atomic structure consisted of a positively charged nucleus orbited by electrons
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