In a recent lecture before the Royal Institution he selected as his subject "The Existence of Bodies Smaller than Atoms ... to determine the size of an atom. One method of doing this was by ...

The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

After tracing many particles and examining the patterns, Rutherford deduced that the atom must have nearly all its mass, and positive charge, in a central nucleus about 10,000 times smaller than ...