In 1911, Ernest Rutherford and his team (Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden) conducted the "Gold Foil" experiment, which Backstage Science describes as essentially the .
To look inside the atom, Rutherford needed to fire something at it. He used: Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment - Backstage Science
Positively charged particles emitted from a radioactive source (radium). In 1911, Ernest Rutherford and his team (Hans
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At the time, scientists believed in the , where an atom was a blob of positive charge with electrons scattered inside like fruit in a pudding. If this were true, the heavy alpha particles should have whizzed straight through the "soft" atoms.