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jan 11, 1908 - Gold Foil Experiment

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When shot, a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil, a few of the particles were deflected. Concluded that a tiny, dense nucleus was causing the deflections.

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jan 11, 1908
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~ 117 years ago

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