Born in 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford was ... surrounded by electrons. This "Rutherford model" would ...

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

Ernest Rutherford had recently suggested the atom had a miniature, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of nearly weightless electrons. There were a few problems with the model, however.

The Physics Laboratory, 1908 Manchester was able to appoint Ernest Rutherford ... of the atomic nucleus in 1911, Henry Moseley's physical explanation of the different properties of chemical elements ...

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 ...

which were based on the work of Ernest Rutherford and Max Planck’s quantum theory. His model proposed that: The Bohr model provided a quantum explanation for atomic stability and radiation ...

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 ...