Rutherford Gold - Foil Experiment - Backstage Science

While most did pass through, Rutherford was shocked to find that:

Chosen because gold is incredibly malleable and can be beaten into a sheet only about 1,000 atoms thick. Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment - Backstage Science

Videos about some of Britain's most amazing science facilities While most did pass through, Rutherford was shocked

To look inside the atom, Rutherford needed to fire something at it. He used: While most did pass through

Positively charged particles emitted from a radioactive source (radium).

In 1911, Ernest Rutherford and his team (Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden) conducted the "Gold Foil" experiment, which Backstage Science describes as essentially the .

A detector that would flash when hit by an alpha particle. The Unexpected Result