The nuclear atom differs from the uniform sphere model, because they both are made from different atoms because of the elements.
Ernest Rutherford created the nuclear model of an atom!
Archaic models are studied only to understand the evolution of human thought.
You probably mean "oblate spheroid," which is the 3D analogue of an ellipse. The earth and other planets, due to the competition between rotational momentum and gravity, is an oblate spheroid. You can model an oblate spheroid by rotating an ellipse around its shorter axis, just as you can model a sphere by the rotation of a circle around any diameter.
The development of atomic models in chronological order is as follows: Atoms are solid spheres. Atoms have electrons attached to their surface. Electrons move around nucleus at specific energy levels. Rapid motion of electrons around nucleus in a cloud.
Niels Bohr (the father, not the son who also got a Nobel prize) is known for: - Nuclear models with layers explaining radiation - Contributions to quantum mechanics
The "plum pudding" (as they called it) model suggest's that the electrons were dispersed throughout the atom. Where as the nuclear model has positively charged protons which are present in the center of an atom (called the nucleus)
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Solid sphere model Planetary model Quantum mechanical model
The plum pudding model of the atom was proposed by J.J. Thomson in 1904. It suggested that an atom was a uniform, positively charged sphere with embedded negatively charged electrons.
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Ball, globe, or sphere.
Ernest Rutherford's atomic model evolved from the plum pudding model to the nuclear model. In the plum pudding model, he proposed that atoms consist of a positively charged sphere with negatively charged electrons embedded in it. Upon conducting the gold foil experiment and observing that some alpha particles were deflected, he revised his model to include a dense, positively charged nucleus at the center of the atom, surrounded by orbiting electrons. This became known as the nuclear model of the atom.
In the Ptolemaic Greek model of the universe, the stars are thought to be attached to the celestial sphere, a hypothetical invisible sphere surrounding the Earth to which the stars were fixed. This model placed Earth at the center of the universe with all celestial bodies orbiting around it.
Thompson's model proposed that atoms were made up of positive and negative charges distributed throughout a positively charged sphere, similar to a raisin pudding. In contrast, Dalton's model suggested that atoms were indivisible and uniform spheres with no internal structure. Thompson's model introduced the idea of subatomic particles, while Dalton's model viewed atoms as simple building blocks of matter.
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A sphere could be used as a three dimensional model of the earth.
Ernest Rutherford created the nuclear model of an atom!