These particles should have passed straight through, according to the plum pudding model. However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and ...

Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was ... From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists of a tiny, dense ...

The centenary of the discovery of the quantum atom by Niels Bohr will be celebrated at the ... work at the Victoria University of Manchester following an invite from Ernest Rutherford. The New ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure ... of the different properties of chemical elements and the consequent Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom were ...

These particles should have passed straight through, according to the plum pudding model. However, many of them changed direction. Ernest Rutherford explained these results in his ‘planetary ...