Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

This defied the existing atomic model, which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out. From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists of a ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...