AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, courtesy Otto Hahn and Lawrence Badash.
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Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) came to the Cavendish Laboratory
as a young man from New Zealand, and was a research student
under Thomson. Using rays emitted by radioactive elements to
probe deep into atoms, around 1913 he showed that Thomson's
"plum pudding" model of the atom was untenable.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, courtesy Otto Hahn and Lawrence Badash.
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