MOSTLY EMPTY Rutherford revealed that almost all of an atom’s mass is concentrated in a very small and dense nucleus (orange), shown here roughly 1,000 times larger than its actual size relative ...

Rutherford went off to write a letter of acceptance, laughing heartily. Today, some eight decades after his death in 1937, the great New Zealander is best known for his discovery in 1911 of the atomic ...

Rutherford's atom consisted of a tiny central core containing virtually all the atomic mass, which he later called the nucleus, but it occupied only a minute volume "like a fly in a cathedral".

Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." ... in a central nucleus about 10,000 times smaller than the atom itself.

The results led to Rutherford’s second “eureka moment” when he realised that the majority of an atom’s mass is concentrated in a relatively tiny volume at its centre — he had discovered the nucleus.

a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. - E. Rutherford The Rutherford model is now recognized as a useful metaphor, but, as soon as you get into the details, it falls apart ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. ... For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Lord Rutherford was for calling the atom “diplogen” and its nucleus the “diplon,” and a number of British scientists seemed willing to follow his lead, despite a polite but barbed letter ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...