It was first proposed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford ... Rutherford's Nobel-winning discovery of α particles formed the basis of the gold foil experiment, which cast doubt ...

It was here that, in collaboration with Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, Rutherford carried out the “gold foil experiment ... whom Rutherford had studied, discovered the electron and formulated ...

It was the first type of nuclear radiation to be discovered ... Rutherford's gold foil experiment explained Between 1898 and 1899, physicist Ernest Rutherford, who was studying radioactivity ...

This was the year that Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in chemistry ... and chemically different, atoms. "This discovery of the natural transmutation of elements first brought him to world ...

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Creating more exotic isotopes will reveal the stellar formation of atoms — a fitting tribute to Ernest Rutherford ... aimed at a very thin sheet of gold foil. Some of the particles were ...

As part of an experiment with x-rays in 1909, Rutherford was shooting a beam of alpha particles (or alpha rays, emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an ...

Thomson discovered ... tutelage of Rutherford at the University of Manchester, fired what were called alpha particles — what we know today as helium nuclei — at a leaf of gold foil.

As eulogies go, Dr Andrew Taylor's opening remarks at a conference to mark the one hundredth anniversary of Ernest Rutherford's description ... a thin sheet of gold foil with Alpha particles.

Ernest Rutherford (right ... The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Brightwater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker ...