16 giug 1911 anni - -Ernest Rutherford was responsible for creating
the Rutherford atomic structure in 1911 by
making the discovery that nearly the total mass
of the atom was located in the nucleus.
Rutherford discovered this using his well known
gold-foil experiment, demonstrating that the
atom has a heavy nucleus. Rutherford's atomic
structure consisted of a positively charged
nucleus orbited by electrons
