Rutherford claimed that at the center of an atom there was a very tiny, very dense, positively charged part called a nucleus, surrounded by electrons at a distance.
This was an idea of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) from 1911.
The gold-foil experiment
The experiments were being done by Ernest Marsden, and Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford.
The (cell) nucleus is generally believed to have been discovered by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. The nucleus of the atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford.
Ernest Rutherford explained the behavior of positively charged particles being deflected from metal foils as they interacted with the nucleus of the atom in his famous gold foil experiment. This experiment led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus as a small, dense, positively charged center within the atom.
Ernest Rutherford
This was an idea of Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) from 1911.
Ernest Rutherford
in 1897
Ernest Rutherford discovered that the nucleus of an atom has a positive charge and discovered the evidence to show the electron field surrounding the nucleus in an atom.
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
The gold foil experiment convinced Ernest Rutherford that the atom has a small positively charged nucleus. In this experiment, alpha particles were shot at a thin gold foil. The fact that some of the alpha particles were deflected and even bounced back led Rutherford to conclude that atoms have a small, dense, positively charged nucleus.
The discovery of the nucleus is typically credited to Ernest Rutherford, an English physicist of the early 1900s. Rutherford first came up with the idea of a nucleus as a result of his gold foil experiments.
The gold-foil experiment