Fun with Transparency Films: the Rutherford Gold Foil Experiments and Beyond
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In the Rutherford-Geiger-Marsden experiments, alpha particles were streamed into a thin gold foil in an attempt to prove the plum pudding model of the atom. The results were one of the most striking examples of a discrepant event in scientific history. This demonstration provides the student with a visual sense of what Rutherford and his researchers expected to find, and then what they actually did find.
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