There he met J.J. Thomson ... 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 ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

The scientist John Dalton carried out ... did not fit with the existing model. Scientists changed the model so that it could explain the new evidence. 1909-1911 Rutherford (and Geiger and Marsden ...

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 ...