jan 4, 1911 - Model: His model shows that an atom is a mostly empty space with electrons orbiting a fixed, positively charged nucleus. He also discovered protons and the nucleus. Experiment: His most famous experiment is the gold foil experiment. A beam of alpha particles was aimed at a piece of gold foil. Most alpha particles passed through the foil, but a few were scattered backward
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jan 4, 1911
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~ 115 years ago