This scientist led a series of experiments that used high speed lightweight atoms called alpha particles to bombard very thin pieces of gold foil. Some of the alpha particles went straight through the foil, but a few alpha particles bounced back. The scientist used this information to hypothesize that an atom is made of a tiny dense nucleus surrounded by a region of mostly empty space.

A. Democritus

B. Ernest Rutherford

C. J. J Thomson

D. Archimedes

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Abigayle Dunlap

12 January, 10:43

This scientist led a series of experiments that used high speed lightweight atoms called alpha particles to bombard very thin pieces of gold foil. Some of the alpha particles went straight through the foil, but a few alpha particles bounced back. The scientist used this information to hypothesize that an atom is made of a tiny dense nucleus surrounded by a region of mostly empty space.

A. Democritus

B. Ernest Rutherford

C. J. J Thomson

D. Archimedes

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Alisson Robles · Answer 1

B. Ernest Rutherford

Explanation:

Ernest Rutherford was a renown Physicist and a Physics Nobel price winner. In 1911 he proposed the planetary model of atom. When the experiment were conducted he proposed that the atom had a charged nucleus and are surrounded by electrons. This finding was the basis for subsequent studies on radioactivity.