One hundred years ago, Ernest Rutherford decided to shoot some stuff at atoms and toppled then-current atomic theory. Physicist and blogger Rhett Allain walks through the rise of six atomic models.

This is consistent with Rutherford’s model of a small nucleus surrounded by what is effectively mostly just empty space.” No, that’s not what Rutherford’s scattering model said.

In 1911, Rutherford published his version of the atom, which included a positively charged nucleus orbited by electrons. This model arose when Rutherford and his assistants fired alpha particles ...

The Bohr model is a neat but quite imperfect depiction of the inner workings of an atom before things got too muddled up by quantum principles.

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden ...

Ernest Rutherford, one of history's most incredible physicists with a Chemistry Nobel to his name, redefined the atomic structure, discovered the proton, and found that atoms weren't indivisible ...

The Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom is based on evidence obtained from alpha particle close alpha particle Subatomic particle comprising two protons and two neutrons (the same as a helium ...

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Protons are tiny particles just a femtometer across, but without them, atoms wouldn't exist. Protons are tiny subatomic particles that, along with neutrons, form the nucleus of an atom. The ...