Ernest Rutherford ... Acceptance of this model grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ... This defied the existing atomic model, which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out. From this, Rutherford proposed a ...

The Danish physicist and philosopher conducted postdoctoral work at the Victoria University of Manchester following an invite from Ernest Rutherford ... the atomic nucleus in 1911 and further ...

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 ...

The Rutherford ... model of the atom were developed there in 1915, and the 'splitting of the atom' in 1919. Other members of the Manchester team included Hans Geiger (co-inventor of the Geiger counter ...

Changes to the atomic model Atoms have a central positive nucleus. Most of the mass of an atom is found in the nucleus. New evidence In-depth work on Rutherford's model showed it had limitations.