Rutherford (18h 52min, jan 3, 1871 y – 18h 52min, jan 3, 1937 y)
Description:
- Alpha particles aimed at a thin sheet of gold foil- Gold Foil Experiment
- Alpha particles
- Concluded that the plum pudding experiment was wrong
- Calculated that an atom consists mostly of empty space through which electrons move
- Concluded that almost all of the atom's positive charge and almost all of its mass were contained in a tiny, dense region in the center of the atom, called the nucleus
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Date:
18h 52min, jan 3, 1871 y
18h 52min, jan 3, 1937 y
~ 66 years
