#PhysicsFactlet
Rutherford scattering: At the beginning of the XX century it was accepted that atoms were a thing, but what an atom looked like was still an open question. An important piece of this puzzle was the realization that, if you shoot charged particles at a thin piece of material, most of them passed through with little to no deflection, but a few were scattered at very high angles, suggesting atoms' positive charge is concentrated in a small volume.
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