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jan 1, 1911 - Nuclear Model

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Ernest Rutherford discovered that an atom was mostly emepty space, and that the positive charge was located in the nucleus of an atom. He found this by firing positively charged alpha particles at gold foil.

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jan 1, 1911
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~ 115 years ago