As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ... This defied the existing atomic model, which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out. From this, Rutherford proposed a ...

Ernest Rutherford ... 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 the 1908 ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford ... In 1803, ...

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 ...

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 ...