jan 15, 1911 - Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest shot positively charged alpha particles(Those are positively charged particles with an identical nucleus to helium which is spontaneously emitted from some radioactive substances) at a sheet of gold foil, while most passed through with little change of course some had deviated a lot meaning that the atom is comprised of mostly empty space with a positive charge concentrated in the nucleas

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