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sep 24, 1908 - Gold Foil Experiment

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Gold Foil Experiment proved the existence of a small massive center to atoms, which would later be known as the nucleus of an atom. Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden carried out their Gold Foil Experiment to observe the effect of alpha particles on matter.

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sep 24, 1908
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~ 117 years ago