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may 4, 1911 - Nuclear Model

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Rutherford fired positively charged alpha particles at a thin sheet of gold foil. He noticed that some light with little deflection, but some deflected at a larger angle. He infered that this could be possible only if the atom was mostly empty, with the positive charge concetrated in the centre — the nucleus.

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may 4, 1911
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~ 114 years ago

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