For a different take on Rutherford’s discovery, Dacey also met physicist John Schiffer of Argonne National Laboratory, who has been an active nuclear researcher since completing his PhD in 1954.

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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 ...

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