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jan 26, 1911 - Ernest Rutherford discovers the electron

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Ernest Rutherford was an english scientist. He was born in 1871 and died 1937. He is credited with discovering the neutron by the "gold foil experiment." He is also the one that proposed the idea that the atom is mostly empty space with electrons orbiting the nucleus. The nucleas having the majority of the mass.

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jan 26, 1911
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~ 115 years ago