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Ernest Rutherford contributed to the understanding of the atom. He used J.J Thomsons model and conducted a expirements in which he shot positively charged particles throught a thin gold foil. He predicted that all the high speed particles would pass straight through the foil without being affected by the gold atoms. Instead, the results showed that while most particles did behave as predicted, some were greatly deflected.

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