jan 1, 1911 - Ernest Rutherford- Atoms have negative space
Description:
Ernest's gold-foil experiment (He shot alpha particles at the gold foil, and observed where they hit. Most were undeflected, the rest bounced off everywhere) showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a small positive nucleus.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1911
Now
~ 115 years ago