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Rutherford had the element 'rutherfordium' named after him in his honor.
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He conducted an experiment were he shot a stream of positively charged alpha particles at a peice of thin gold foil. He figured the particles would go right through. Some did, but some were deflected.
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In 1910, Rutherford's investigations into the scattering of alpha rays and the nature of the inner structure of an atom led to the postulation of his concept of the nucleus, one of his greates contributions the physics. In his model, he had electorns circling the nucleus. Like planets orbiting the sun.
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Rutherford overturned Thomson's theory with his own experiment were he deomonstrated that the atom as a tiny, massive nucleus. He designed a experiment that had alpha particles emmited by a radioactive element.
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From a strangulated hernia.
