Question

What are the observations of rutherford's alpha particles scattering experiment?

Answer 1

1)Most of the fast moving α-particles passed straight through the gold foil.

2)Some of the α-particles were deflected by the foil by small angles.

3)Surprisingly one out of every 12,000 alpha particles appeared to rebound.

Answer 2

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment in collaboration with Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) at foils of gold leaf only a few atoms thick❤️❤️