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Rutherford: Being the Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O. M. MacMillan. Ernest Rutherford (1899). "Uranium Radiation and the Electrical conduction Produced by it". Philosophical Magazine. 47 (284): 109– 163. Ernest Rutherford (1911). "The Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom" (PDF).
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", [ 7 ] and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday ". [ 8 ]
1909 – Robert Millikan: oil-drop experiment which suggests that electric charge occurs as quanta (the electron). 1911 – Ernest Rutherford's gold foil experiment determines that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the core of each atom, which he named the atomic nucleus, is dense and positively charged [1]
1909 Ernest Rutherford and Thomas Royds demonstrate that alpha particles are doubly ionized helium atoms; 1909 Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden discover large angle deflections of alpha particles by thin metal foils; 1911 Ernest Rutherford explains the Geiger–Marsden experiment by invoking a nuclear atom model and derives the Rutherford cross ...
1909: Robert Andrews Millikan: conducts the oil drop experiment and determines the charge on an electron; 1910: Williamina Fleming: the first white dwarf, 40 Eridani B; 1911: Ernest Rutherford: Atomic nucleus; 1911: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: Superconductivity; 1912: Alfred Wegener: Continental drift; 1912: Max von Laue: x-ray diffraction
This is a timeline of subatomic particle discoveries, including all particles thus far discovered which appear to be elementary (that is, indivisible) given the best available evidence. It also includes the discovery of composite particles and antiparticles that were of particular historical importance.
The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Bridgewater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker the "father of nuclear physics".
Now called the Rutherford gold foil experiment, or the Geiger–Marsden experiment, these measurements made the extraordinary discovery that although most alpha particles passing through a thin gold foil experienced little deflection, a few scattered to a high angle. The scattering indicated that some of the alpha particles ricocheted back from ...