Physics Experiment

Rutherford’s nuclear theory of the atom has held sway in the scientific community for 70 years.  I now propose a test which may disprove it.

Introduction

Nearly all present-day physicists are convinced of the truth of the assertion in the following quotation from Weidner and Sells’ Elementary Modern Physics⁽¹⁾:

It was by the alphaparticle scattering experiments, suggested by Rutherford, that the existence of atomic nuclei was established.