October 1, 2020
Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment- Discovery of Nucleus

Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment: The evidence for the existence of the nucleus has been provided by Rutherford’s Experiment which he carried out in 1911. In his experiment, he bombarded a thin gold foil with a beam of alpha particles (particles carrying two units of positive charge and four units of mass) and observed their behavior