Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as ... Rutherford's model wasn't quite ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... He discovered the atomic nucleus and developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system. Like planets, electrons orbited ...

who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be credited with splitting the atom. Rutherford, the New Zealand-born scientist ...