When Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden fired alpha particles at a thin gold foil, most passed straight through, deflected only slightly by positive electrical charge in the gold atoms. But a few were highly deflected and some bounced almost straight back, evidence that the atom’s positive charge and mass were both concentrated in a tiny core.
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