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| This effect was taking place at a scale smaller than atoms, Ernest Rutherford surmised. As Ernest Rutherford, the Nobel laureate physicist who taught at McGill University in the early part of the century, once told his colleagues: "Gentlemen, since we don't have money, I guess we'll have to think. Early in this century, the observation that gold atoms strongly deflect alpha particles led Ernest Rutherford to postulate the existence of the atomic nucleus. |
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Ernest Rutherford - British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)