He had to persuade the rest of the scientific world that solids were in fact mostly empty space.
Ernest Rutherford was the first scientist to describe an atomic model in which most of the atom is empty space. His model proposed that atoms have a dense positive nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons in empty space.
Ernest Rutherford was the man you are thinking of. He was the first person to 'split the atom'.
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford was responsible for the Gold Foil experiment. A great portion of Ernest Rutherford's research included the study of alpha particles.
This scientist was Ernest Rutherford.
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Ernest Rutherford discovered that alpha particles are helium nuclei during his famous gold foil experiment in 1909. This experiment provided evidence for the existence of a dense, positively charged atomic nucleus.
Ernest Rutherford, following the "gold foil" experiment.
Rutherford was a famous Russian scientist who discovered nucleus in chemistry. his full name was lord ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford in 1919.
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