jan 1, 1911 - Ernest Rutherford
Description:
Rutherford overturned Thomson's model with his well-known gold foil experiment in which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny and heavy nucleus. Rutherford designed an experiment to use the alpha particles emitted by a radioactive element as probes to the unseen world of atomic structure.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1911
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~ 114 years ago