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Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment
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Rutherford started his scientific career with much success in local schools
leading to a scholarship to Nelson College. After achieving more academic
honors at Nelson College, Rutherford moved on to Cambridge University's
Cavendish laboratory. There he was lead by his mentor J.J. Thomson convinc ....
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.... set out to
disprove the current atomic model. In 1909 he and his partner, Geiger, decided
Ernest Marsden, a student of the University of Manchester, was ready for a real
research project.2 This experiment's apparatus consisted of Polonium in a lead
box emitting alpha particles towards a gold foil. The foil was surrounded by a
luminescent zinc sulfide screen to detect where the alpha particles went after
contacting the gold atoms. Because of Thomson's atomic model this experiment
did not see.... |
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