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Rutherford and his team investigated the structure of matter using natural radioactivity and discovered that atoms have a nucleus with positive charge. Rutherford put forward a model of the atom to explain the things his team found in their experiments, and this was an important step in our understanding of atomic structure. The work continued and resulted in the first nuclear reactions. Although Cockroft and Walton actually split the atom, the procedure derived from Rutherford's work. The object of all these experiments was to understand the structure of matter.

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