Bohr Rutherford Diagram Of Gold. In geiger marsden experiment aka gold leaf. There are some drawbacks in rutherfords atomic model.
Just like the solar system the nucleus lies in the center of the atom and electron revolves around it in their orbits prepared by. He used alpha particles small but dense positive charged particles emitted like x rays and shot them at gold foil. The model proposed by niels bohr is the one that you will see in a lot of introductory science texts.
Thus rutherford could prove that the nucleus is positively charged dense and hard.
Back in 1940 when hitler led germany invaded denmark hungarian chemist george de hevesy dissolved the nobel prize gold medals of max von laue and james franck in aqua regia to keep them safe from the nazi troops who were ransacking the chemistry lab at the niels bohr institute. Chemistry 12th edition by chang and gold. Each orbital can hold a certain amount of electrons. Rutherford designed an experiment to use the alpha particles emitted by a radioactive element as probes to the unseen world of atomic structure.