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  2. Ernest Rutherford - Wikipedia

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    Succeeded by. Lawrence Bragg. Signature. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM , FRS , HonFRSE [ 7 ] (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", [ 8 ] and "the greatest ...

  3. Rutherford model - Wikipedia

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    The Rutherford model was devised by Ernest Rutherford to describe an atom. Rutherford directed the Geiger–Marsden experiment in 1909, which suggested, upon Rutherford's 1911 analysis, that J. J. Thomson 's plum pudding model of the atom was incorrect. Rutherford's new model [1] for the atom, based on the experimental results, contained new ...

  4. Rutherford scattering experiments - Wikipedia

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    The physical phenomenon was explained by Ernest Rutherford in a classic 1911 paper that eventually lead to the widespread use of scattering in particle physics to study subatomic matter. Rutherford scattering or Coulomb scattering is the elastic scattering of charged particles by the Coulomb interaction.

  5. Rutherfordium - Wikipedia

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    It is named after physicist Ernest Rutherford. As a synthetic element, it is not found in nature and can only be made in a particle accelerator. It is radioactive; the most stable known isotope, 267 Rf, has a half-life of about 48 minutes. In the periodic table, it is a d-block element and the second of the fourth-row transition elements.

  6. Plum pudding model - Wikipedia

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    The plum pudding model was the first scientific model of the atom with internal structure. It was first proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1904 following his discovery of the electron in 1897, but it was subsequently rendered obsolete by Ernest Rutherford 's discovery of the atomic nucleus in 1911. The model tried to account for two properties of ...

  7. Radiometric dating - Wikipedia

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    Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by Ernest Rutherford as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the century since then the techniques have been greatly improved and expanded. [17] Dating can now be performed on samples as small as a nanogram using a mass spectrometer. The mass ...

  8. Hantaro Nagaoka - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Rutherford mentions Nagaoka's model in his 1911 paper in which the atomic nucleus is proposed. [6] However Nagaoka's work probably did not influence Rutherford's proposal. [7] Nagaoka's model was widely discussed by prominent scientists of the day, but a detailed study by George Schott showed the model could not correctly predict atomic ...

  9. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    History of atomic theory. The current theoretical model of the atom involves a dense nucleus surrounded by a probabilistic "cloud" of electrons. Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. The definition of the word "atom" has changed over the years in response to scientific discoveries.