Improved knowledge of the atom via new experiments and development of new theories (e.g. quantum mechanics).
Before Rutherford, scientists assumed that the atom was a single particle. Rutherford presented his revolutionary, physical atomic model that suggested an atom consists of a central charge (the term 'nucleus' was coined after Rutherford's model was presented) that is surrounded, presumably, by a cloud of orbiting electrons. He showed that most of an atom's mass was located in the atom's nucleus. Rutherford's model was later improved upon by Niels Bohr, father of the Bohr-model. Rutherford made no connection to an element's atomic number and the number of protons within an atom's nucleus; however, his atomic model paved the way for the discovery of this correlation only a couple years after his model was designed.
The current model of an atom is called the Bohr model.
Plum-pudding model of atom.
The first model of the atom was developed by Thomson.
A electron cloud, a electron, protron,neutron,and the nucleus
Niels Bohr suggested a planetary model for the atom.
Niels Bohr suggested a planetary model for the atom.
He described the mass of an atom was located in a single point not equally shared as the plumb pudding model suggested it. However he did not use the term nucleus in his report.
a new model of the atom that describe electrons as being in a cloud
Neil's Bohr developed his model of the atom in 1931 as a student of Rutherford. This model suggested that electrons orbited in concentric circles around the nucleus at discrete energy levels.
Well one thing he invented was the atom bomb
It has been updated as we know more about the atom as technologys improve, we know there are S,P,D and F orbitals which all have a different shapes. Basically we know more about the atom and know that there arent spherical clouds of whizzing electrons, thre is a more complex structure.
Improved knowledge of the atom via new experiments and development of new theories (e.g. quantum mechanics).
they could discover a new atom and it would change
The results of this experiment led to the model of the atom called "Rutherford's model", rather than Thomson's model, which it basically disproved. Some of the alpha particles were deflected in ways that suggested to Rutherford that most of the atom's mass was concentrated in a positively charged "nucleus".
Improved knowledge of the atom via new experiments and development of new theories (e.g. quantum mechanics).