What was shown by Rutherfords gold foil experiment?
Ernest Rutherford’s 1911 experiments with gold foil discovered that the atom’s positive charge is concentrated in one place – a nucleus, as we now know it. Although Rutherford did not personally conduct the experiment (his assistants, Ernest Marsden and Hans Geiger, of “Geiger Counter” fame, actually carried it out), he did design and direct it. The groundbreaking results ensured that the “Rutherford model”, as it was then known, gained quick, widespread acceptance in the scientific community.
