The so-called Rutherford's experiment, as it is outlined in many physics textbooks, is a case in point of the flaws around the history at the educational level of one of the decisive event of modern physics: the discovery that the atom has a nucleus. This paper shows that this alleged experiment is a very approximate and very partial synthesis of a series of different particle scattering experiments, starting with that carried out by Rutherford in 1906 and ending with Geiger and Marsden's 1913 experiments.

'Rutherford's experiment' on alpha particles scattering: The experiment that never was

Leone, M.;
2018-01-01

Abstract

The so-called Rutherford's experiment, as it is outlined in many physics textbooks, is a case in point of the flaws around the history at the educational level of one of the decisive event of modern physics: the discovery that the atom has a nucleus. This paper shows that this alleged experiment is a very approximate and very partial synthesis of a series of different particle scattering experiments, starting with that carried out by Rutherford in 1906 and ending with Geiger and Marsden's 1913 experiments.
2018
53
3
035003
035012
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/aaa353/pdf
3304; Physics and Astronomy (all)
Leone, M.; Robotti, N.; Verna, G.
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