Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited ...

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 ... Rutherford's model wasn't quite ...

From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists of a tiny, dense nucleus, surrounded by electrons. This "Rutherford model" would form the ...