When Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden direct alpha particles at a thin gold foil, the expectation is that almost all of them ...
Imagine firing tiny particles at a sheet of gold and expecting almost all of them to pass straight through. That was, broadly, what Ernest Rutherford and his colleagues expected. What happened instead ...
100 years ago on December 10, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. John Campbell, the author of Rutherford: Scientist Supreme and www. rutherford.org.nz, summarises the pathway.
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