Practice mode Inventions

Whose gold foil experiment led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus in 1911?

Correct answer D. Ernest Rutherford

Explanation

Ernest Rutherford interpreted the scattering of alpha particles by thin gold foil as evidence that an atom's positive charge and most of its mass sit in a tiny central nucleus.

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