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Ernest Rutherford disagreed with J.J. Thomson's "plum pudding" model of the atom, which suggested that electrons were distributed throughout a positively charged "soup." Through his gold foil experiment, Rutherford demonstrated that atoms have a small, dense nucleus at their center, surrounded by orbiting electrons. This led to the nuclear model of the atom, fundamentally changing the understanding of atomic structure by emphasizing the concentrated positive charge within the nucleus rather than a diffuse distribution.

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