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 ... Rutherford's model wasn't quite ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited ...

From this, Rutherford proposed a revolutionary new model of the atom. He suggested that the atom consists of a tiny, dense nucleus, surrounded by electrons. This "Rutherford model" would form the ...