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How did the Rutherford experiment prove the existence of the nucleus?
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∙ 11y ago
The Gold Foil experiment demonstrated the (at the time) surprising result that atoms had nuclei. The prevaling model for atoms at the time has been described as "grapes in Jell-O" (with electrons - "grapes" - suspended in a uniform field of positive charge, the "Jell-O"), and the alpha particles Rutherford (actually, it was his students, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden) was shooting at the foil were expected to pass nearly straight through with only minor deviations.
Instead, what was observed was what Rutherford described as "firing a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and having it come back and hit you," because it turns out that all the positive charge in the atom is concentrated within a very small region ... the nucleus, and the alpha particles recoiled quite strongly from this concentration of charge.
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