A part of Rutherford’s scattering experiments, this particular experiment involved shooting alpha particles at a piece of gold foil with the source, foil, and detector placed in a vacuum vessel.
Imagine firing tiny particles at a sheet of gold and expecting almost all of them to pass straight through. That was, broadly, what Ernest Rutherford and his colleagues expected. What happened instead ...
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